BUBONIC PLAGUE.
OUTBREAK IN BARCELONA. SIXTY PERSONS DEAD. (Received August 30, 7.5 p.m.) MADRID, August 30. Bubonic plague has broken out at Barcelona. It is supposed to be due to contaminated clothing which was appropriated from a refuse dump outside the city. There have been 60 deaths and 140 persons are in hospital. The whole city has been lavishly disinfected, and trams, buses and restaurants reek of carbolic.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20965, 31 August 1931, Page 9
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