Cholera Outbreak In Egypt Prevents Mecca Pilgrimage
London, Sept. 28
Neighbouring countries have imposed severe restrictions on travel from cholera-stricken Egypt reports the Associated Press Cairo correspondent. Palestine, Iraq, Syria and the Lebanon have instructed their Cairo Consulates-to issue no visas unless the travellers are vaccinated. Travellers in all cases will require to go into quarantine for five days on arrival.
Reuter’s Baghdad correspondent says that the Moslem pilgrimage from Iraq to Mecca has been banned because of the cholera outbreak in Egypt. Egypt lias also banned its Mecca pilgrimage.
The Egyptian Cabinet, faced with reports that cholera is spreading and that the epidemic shows no signs of abating, has decided that, everyone of Egypt's 17,000,000 inhabitants must be ’ inoculated as soon as supplies of serum are sufficient. Britain and America have promised all help.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 30 September 1947, Page 5
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