GRAMOPHONE RECORDS GROUND UP
MIXED WITH WATER TO MAKE MAW TALK . WITCH DOCTOR’S TREATMENT. THEFT OF RECORDS FOLLOW. (Received 9.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, May 24. Malaria and blackwater fever are devasting pai'fcs of Zululand. In the eastern Transvaal border town of Kroonstepoort, out of 71) -residents, there were 68 cases and ten deaths, including the district surgeon and railway foreman. Scores of Zulu kraals are deserted. Doctors who have been supplemented are experiencing difficulties in treating the natives who are clinging to old remedies and relyfng on witch doctors. One of these ground a . gramophone record to make a patient talk and mixed it with water from an engine to make him go. The patient recovered, this resulting in wholesale thefts of records. No natives have cut sugar cane in many areas, and the Government is issuing quinine free.—Australian P.A.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 23, 25 May 1929, Page 5
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