SPREAD OF DISEASE
AIR TRAVEL MENACE DUTCHMAN THE VICTIM SINGAPORE, April 9 Evidence of the danger of the spread of disease by air was given to-day when Meinheer Van Haselen, a high Dutch Airways official, died from cholera near Singapore. He came by air from The Hague and stayed three days at Bangkok, where an epidemic was abating, but where at one time hundreds of people were dying weekly. The Dutchman travelled by aeroplane to Penang, where he joined a boat and became ill. He was dead in five hours. The passengers carried by the ship and aeroplane have been quarantined at Singapore and Java respectively.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22700, 12 April 1937, Page 9
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