Two More Suspected Cases Of Smallpox
Received Wednesday, 10.20 a.m. LONDON, April 19. A Ministry of Health official stated that two young men, a 31^ year-old Irish labourer and a 28-year-old miner, have been admitted to an isolation hospital near Gr'imsby as suspected smallpox cases. The Ministry was satisfied that neither case was linked in any way with the Mooltan. Three more Mooltan passengers, a boy and a man and a woman, have been admitted to hospital suffering from smallpox. This brings the total number of passengers in hospital up to ten. Five Mooltan passengers have died from the disease.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 April 1949, Page 5
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