SERIOUS EPIDEMICS
MIGRANT SHIP FROM ITALY DEATHS ON VOYAGE TO AUSTRALIA NZPA—Copyright MELBOURNE, Dec. 28. When the migrant ship Castelbianco reached Melbourne from Naples 14 children were rushed to hospital. Ten were suffering from measles and four from complications after measles. Passengers said that epidemics of measles, gastro-enteritis and whooping cough swept through 201 children of under three years during the voyage. Two children died between Aden and Fremantle, one from gastro-enteritis and the other from bronchial pneumonia. At Fremantle 18 persons, comprising five children and their families, were put off the ship and the children taken to hospital. An International Refugee Organisation doctor who travelled on board the ship said that when- they embarked at Naples nearly all the children were badly under-nourished.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27275, 29 December 1949, Page 5
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