SPREADING DISEASE.
BLANK MTS SWARMING WITH TYI’tIOJD BACILLI. FIFTEEN THOUSAND BLANKETS SOLD IN PROVINCES. By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, May 21. Tim Daily Mail alleges that large quantities of infected blankets fiom South Africa went to Whitechapel. The (i o\eminent, sold none. Thousands were stolen by Kaffirs, or captured during warfare.
Eleven cases of enteric have occupied in the reformatory ship Cornwall on the Thames. They have been traced to Die use of these infected blankets.
Those in the warehouses have been fumigated, but quantities have already gone to the provinces. Later. The blankets seized at Whitechapel were drenched with blood and swarming with typhoid bacilli.
Fifteen thousand blankets were sold in the province.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 899, 23 May 1903, Page 2
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