DYSENTERY EPIDEMIC
Outbreak in Japanese City NEARLY 100 CHILDREN DIE Tokio, January 10. Tokio, Yokohama, and the Yukosuka Naval Station are increasingly alarmed by a schoolchildren’s epidemic of acute dysentery which is raging in the industrial city of Kawasaki, which is wedged between Tokio and Yokohama. There have been nearly 100 deaths in Kawasaki, and over 600 sufferers. The three biggest hospitals are jammed, and the overflow has been taken to Yokohama hospitals. Desperately stringent measures are being taken, and the whole of Kawasaki reeks with disinfectants. Sixteen schools with 20,000 pupils are closed. The origin of the epidemic has not yet been established, but its spread is attributed to a physician’s wrong diagnosis of the first case as influenza.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 92, 12 January 1935, Page 7
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120DYSENTERY EPIDEMIC Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 92, 12 January 1935, Page 7
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