TERRIBLE TOLL.
FLORIDA HAVOC.
MANY HIDDEN DEAD
Latest Count Shows Over
1000 Lost.
RED CROSS TIGHT DISEASE
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.)
(Received 10 a.m.)
NEW YORK, September 21
A West Palm Beach message states that as relief units work to prevent epidemics among the refugees, the official death toll has been placed at 1085 lives by the Jied Cross officials. The roads are almost impassably flooded, therefore the -workers are attempting to move supplies by boat to the devastated centres. The dead are being buried hastily, but the flooded marshes are believed to hold other'bodies to add to the toll. The extraordinary measures taken to prevent a typhoid outbreak among the refugees are . believed to have been successful. The milk supply is being pasteurised, water chlorinated and a large part of the population has been given typhoid vaccine.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 225, 22 September 1928, Page 9
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139TERRIBLE TOLL. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 225, 22 September 1928, Page 9
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