TYPHUS IN GERMANY
ALLIES IMPOSE QUARANTINE Recd. 6 p.m. London, April 11. Typhus has been reported from 58 different places inside Germany, and I the Chief Surgeon’s Office of the Allied Expeditionary Force has imposed a quarantine on the whole of the Reich beyond the Rhine to keep the disease from spreading to France and. (he Low Countries, says the Associated Press correspondent on the Western Front. The quarantine does not apply to Allied soldiers, none of whom have yet been reported stricken by the disease. More thnn 500 cases have been found in occupied territory, however, among German civilians, and especially among prisoners and forced labourers. None of these people will be permitted to cross to the west of the Rhine without first, being examined and treated with anti-vermin powder.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 86, 12 April 1945, Page 5
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