SHIP OF DEATH
DISEASED BODIES BURNT IN FURNACES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyrignt ATHENS, January 16. A veritable death-ship has arrived at Pirqaus from Samsoun (Constantinople). Of two thousand passengers 1600 are stricken with typhus, smallpox, and cholera, including two out of three doctors. Thirty-five dead were buried at sea, and 25 more died in harbour The Greek Health authorities have ordered the bodies to be burned in the ship’s furnaces, and the Government has debarred the admission of further refugees until the epidemics are controlled.— Reuter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18764, 18 January 1923, Page 7
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