RECORD CURE!
Gramophone Disc Fed to Patient. MORE BLACK CROWS (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and K.Z. Press Association) Reed. 10 a.m. CAPETOWN, Friday. Malaria and blackwater fever are devastating parts of Zululand. In the Eastern Transvaal border town of Komatipoort, out of 70 residents, there were 68 cases and 10 deaths, including the district surgeon and railway foreman. Scores of Zulu kraals are deserted. The doctors, who have been supplemented, are experiencing difliculty In treating the natives, who are clinging to the old remedies and relying on witch-doctors. One of these ground down a gramophone record to make the patient talk, and mixed it with water from an engine to make him go. The patient recovered, resulting in wholesale thefts of records.
No natives have cut sugar cane. In many areas the Government is Issuing quinine free.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 672, 25 May 1929, Page 1
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