CHOLERA EPIDEMIC
DEATHS AT MISSION SCHOOL. (United Tress Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) London, December 9. In reference to the report of the deaths of students at a London mission school at Madras, due to a snake being found in a utensil in which soup had been prepared, the mission headquarters’ informant says that 31 are dead and that cholera is responsible. The missionaries safe include Misses H. M. May and J. W. Inglis, both of whom arc New Zealanders. A previous message stated: A story has reached Calcutta from Coimbatore (South India) that 41 boys of the London mission boarding house at Erode have died and many are ill eating some poisonous substance with an evening meal. It is believed that a snake fell into the soup and was cooked with it. The patients suffered excruciating pain. The cook of the hostel is among the dead. The teaching staff did not partake of the particular soup and are not affected.
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Southland Times, Issue 21265, 11 December 1930, Page 5
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