Forty to Fifty Per Cent Of Houses Reported Unfit For Human Habitation.
CAUSES OF EPIDEMIC AMONG CHILDREN IN COAL MINE SETTLEMENT AT YALLOURN. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. (Received March 7, 11.35 a.m.) MELBOURNE, March 7. F CONNECTION with the deaths of children at Yallourn, the district health officer has "reported that the chief cause was the moist, steamy weather, the plague of flies, and insufficient precautions for preventing the contamination of food, particularly milk. The report added that 40 to 50 per cent of the houses in the Yallourn area were unfit for human habitation. The main contributing factor to the epidemic was the extremely insanitary condition of the township. —Aust. and N.Z. Press Assn. A mysterious epidemic occurred among young children at the Brown Coal Mine settlement at Yallourn at the beginning of this month. Seven deaths occurred within a fortnight. Six other children were sent to hospital. The first symptoms were similar to those of gastric influenza.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18406, 7 March 1928, Page 9
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