SCOURGE IN CEYLON
MALARIA SWEEPING WIDE AREA United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, December 17. "The Times” Colombo correspondent says that 500,000 are suffering from a Malaria scourge, which is gripping Ceylon. It is the worst epidemic for 20 years. There are many deaths daily, and the hospitals are overcrowded. Patients are huddled on the floors in corridors, and yet there is a continuous procession of bullock carts carrying collapsed men, women and children thither. Even small villages announce the deaths of 30 to 75. Churches and missionaries are making efforts to relieve the sufferings, but the situation is too desperate for private effort. Also there is a general reluctance to contribute to a relief fund owing to the niggardliness of the State Council, in which there is now a Cingalese majority, fixing the relief contribution at £7500.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19986, 19 December 1934, Page 9
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138SCOURGE IN CEYLON Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19986, 19 December 1934, Page 9
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