TRAIL OF DEATH
SMALLPOX NOT DISCLOSED. ' LONDON, October 23. An Italian woman visitor left a trail of smallpox in London. She told a servant at a West End hotel that she was suffering from influenza. Subsequently 18 persons contracted smallppx, including the hotel laundress and two -uests, who occupied the room on the night following the woman’s departure. Two others succumbed. ’ The health officers traced the woman to the house of a relative whom a doctor was treating for chicken-pox.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19011, 6 November 1923, Page 7
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