SMALLPOX RAGES IN RANGOON
STEPS TO PREVENT A GREAT PLAGUE Received Monday, 10.30 a.m. RANGOON, March 9. To prevent a great plague, the Burmese Government tomorrow begins the tearing down of 30,000 filthy and squalid mat huts indiscriminately built in Rangoon and the moving of the inhabitants to settlements outside the city. U. Aung Zu Wei, Minister of Social Serviees, said that smallpox was already raging in Rangoon J Twenty-five per cent of cases camel with refugees from the districts where Dacoits were pillaging and burning houses.. Ten thousandi such refugees had entered Rangoon monthly during the past half year.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 March 1947, Page 5
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