SICKNESS ON LINER
—FReceived Thursdav, S p.m. CAPETGWN. Dec. 12. A mysterious sickness invohing 25' of the 1000 passengers aboai'd the linei Dominion M-oiiarcli, swept the vessei between L'ouilon and' Capetown but was not Sutiieient to provent her continuing lier voyage to New Zealand via Aib tralia. Tlie lirst symptoms canie sevim days out from Tilbury when passengercomplained of severe intestinal pains, diarrhoea aiid sickness. Thc.shiji's doctor ealled a conference of a numhei of doctor passengers who investigated tlie trouble, which, it is believed, was due to the sliip's water. Members of the .crew told them the tanks had not been reconditioned sinco 1981) aml similar outbreaks had occurred on other voyages. The secretary* of the Sliaw Savill Cov., Mr. Ralph Hodson, said tlie trouble seemed to be due to contaminn tion of food.
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 December 1946, Page 5
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