ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
MYSTERIOUS SICKNESS
FORTY MEN AFFECTED. [Per Press Association.] WHANGAREI, January 8
A remarkable form of violent sickness attacked men employed on Limestone Island at ten o ; clock this morning. Some twenty men were down suffering acute pains in the stomach and vomiting, and by. 2.30 it was reported that forty men were affected. The theory was set up that it was English cholera, but DrHall, who visited the island, does not think so. Though he cannot at present diagnose it, he believes it to be some form of poisoning. Some of the men ate fish, but many had other food, which makes the affair all the more mysterious. The whole population of the island is in a state of perturbation. The matter is being fully inquired, into.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11282, 9 January 1915, Page 6
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