ALARM IN JAPAN.
Epidemic of Dysentery Raging. 100 DEATHS IN ONE CITY. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received January 11, 12.25 p.m.) TOKIO, January 10. Tokio, Yokohama and Yokosuka Naval Station are becoming increasingly alarmed by the school children’s epidemic of acute dysentery which is raging in the industrial city of Kawasaki, which is wedged between Tokio and Yokohama. There have been nearly one hundred deaths in Kawasaki and over 600 sufferers. Three of the biggest hospitals are jammed and the overflow has been taken to the Yokohama hospitals. Desperately stringent measures are being taken and the whole of Kawasaki reeks of disinfectant. Sixteen schools, with 20,000 pupils, have been closed. The Origin of the epidemic has not yet been established, but its spread is attributed by the physicians to the wrong diagnosis of the first case as influenza.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20510, 11 January 1935, Page 1
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