CHILDREN DIE

Press, Volume C, Issue 29516, 18 May 1961, Page 10

CHILDREN DIE

Mental Home Epidemic

(NiZ. Press Assn.—Copyright) MAGOG (Quebec), May 16.

. Twenty mentally retarded children have died within the last six weeks after an outbreak of measles at the Cecil Butters Memorial Home. the institution’s superintendent disclosed last night, according to Canadian Press.

The superintendent, Mrs Lily Butters, said the children died of encephalitis, brain inflammation and pneumonia ailments brought on by attacks of the measles.

The home. 80 miles from Montreal, houses 122 retarded children who are considered incurable. A similar- epidemic about 18 months ago killed 10 of the patients.

Mrs Butters said that about 50 of the children contracted the disease within the last six weeks, and 15 of them still were under treatment.

The ages of the children ranged from two to 12 years.

Tension Rises In Mozambique (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SALISBURY. May 16. Europeans from the Portuguese East African territory of Mozambique are flocking across the Rhodesian border to buy arms, according to reports from the border town of Umtali. Gunsmiths in Umtali said the Portuguese had told them they needed guns in case trouble broke out in the territory, as in Angola, the British United Press reported. Tension is reported to have risen in territory since the outbreak of violence in Angola.

CARPENTERS’ WAGES

(N.Z. Press Association)

WELLINGTON, May 17.

Carpenters employed bv Cubitt Wells, Ltd., have decided “on the job” to ask for payment of 8s 6d an hour. The secretary of the Carpenters’ Union (Mr W. F. Molineux) said he had heard of the decision but had no comment to make on it The union had taken no action in the matter.