TYPHUS IN NAPLES
WARNINGS TO POPULATION Reed. 6 p.m. London, Jan. 5. A rapid increase in typhus cases at Naples last week resulted in new warnings and instructions to the population from high Allied military authorities, says the Naples correspondent ot the Associated Press oi Great Britain. The Allied statement says that a real epidemic may begin. It is known that at least 100 new cases have been found since the figure of 250, which was announced ten days ago. There is not. a single case among the Fifth Army personnel, but military dispensaries are crammed with troops receiving inoculations, while Naples is still closed against all troops except those billeted there.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 5, 7 January 1944, Page 5
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