PARROT DISEASE
OUTBREAK ON DEVIL’S ISLAND TWO HUNDRED CONVICTS DEAD. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) PARIS, April 1. (Received April 1, at 8 p.m.) Two hundred out of 673 convicts sent tq Devil’s Island in November were dead by March, according to a warder’s letter to a relative. ’ Among those who died were the ’murderers Baratute and Mestorino. They were victims of psittaeossis.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20991, 2 April 1930, Page 9
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