OROWD ATTACKS DOCTORS
POLICE RELIEF REQUIRED ALLEGED LABORATORY ERROR NINETEEN CHILDREN DEAD TRAGEDY OF INOCULATION By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.' Montreal, Nov. 17. A message from Medellin (Colombia) states that the police were forced to rush to the protection of physicians at the city’s free medical institution, called Casas Cunas, when they were attacked by riotous citizens following the deaths of 19 and the serious illness of 30 children due to an alleged- laboratory error in winch, following two successful treatments, a group of poor children on the third visit received antidiphtheria vuceine erroneously inoculated with diphtheria germs. All the doctors in the city are working desperately to save those still alive.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1930, Page 7
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