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INFECTION BY AIR A DEFINITE MENACE SINGAPORE, April 9. The danger caused by the spread of disease by air was made evident when M. Van Haselen, a high Dutch Airways official, died of cholera near Singapore. M. Van Haselen came by air from The Hague, and stayed three days at Bangkok, where the epidemic is now abating. However, at one time hundred? were dying every week. The Dutchman travelled by plane to Penang, where he joined a boat. He became ill, and was dead in five hours. The ship was quarantined at Singapore and an aeroplane took the passengers to Java.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23162, 12 April 1937, Page 9
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