SERIOUS EPIDEMIC
ON AMERICAN TRANSPORT MUMPS AND INFLUENZA (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.SAN FRANCISCO, March 21. A serious epidemic of influenza and mumps has developed oii board the army transport Chateau Tluerry, carrying 900 num. destined for China. Five are already dead and 69 are seriously ill. The vessel is making full speed for here. Army ambulances are waiting to transfer the sick to the local hospital. The transport, besides the troopers, carries 25 officers and their wives, and 13 members of Congress, who are en route to China to investigate the position. The seriousness of the epidemic is stressed by the War Department, particularly since! the vessel has been travelling from New York since March 8, and the greatest amount of sickness occurred while the vessel was in Central American waters, making a stop at any port impossible, due to the lack of adequate hospital facilities.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16297, 23 March 1927, Page 7
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