MALARIA EPIDEMIC
OUTBREAK IN CEYLON HALF MILLION AFFECTED DESPERAT E SITUATION (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received Dec. 18. 2 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 17. The Times’ (’olombo correspondent says that half a million persons are suffering from a malaria, scourge which is gripping Oevlon in I lie worst epidemic for 20 years. There, are many deaths daily, and the hospitals are overcrowded, patients being huddled on the floors and in corridors; vet there is a continuous procession of bullock cai'ts carrying collapsed men, women and children thither. ®?ven small villages announce the deaths of 30 to 75 persons. The churches and missionaries -are making efforts to relieve the sufferings, but the situation is too desperate for private effort. Also, there is a general reductance to contribute to a relief fund owing to the niirgardliness of the State Council, in which there is now a Cingalese majority, in fixing the relief contribution at £7500.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18583, 18 December 1934, Page 6
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