EPIDEMIC IN JAPAN
CHILDREN SUFFERING
DESPERATE STEPS TAKEN TOKIO, Jan. 10 In the cities of Tokio and Yokohama and the Yokosuka naval station there is increasing alarm over an epidemic among school children. ; Acute dysentery is raging in the industrial city of Kawasaki, which is contiguously wedged between Tokio and Yokohama.
There have been nearly 100 deaths at Kawasaki. At present there are more than 600 sufferers, and the three biggest hospitals are filled. The overflow has been taken to Yokohama hospitals. Desperately stringent measures are being taken, and the Whole of Kawasaki reeks with disinfectants. Sixteen schools with 20,000 pupils have been closed.
The origin of the epidemic has not been established, but its spread ,is attributed by physioians to a wrong diagnosis of the first case, which was reported to be influenza.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22006, 12 January 1935, Page 11
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