MALARIA & FEVER
DEVASTATING ZULU LAND
WITCH DOCTOR’S CURE? NEW USE, FOR GRAMOPHONE RECORDS. (.United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) CAPETOWN, May 24. Malaria and blackwater fever are devastating parts of Zululand ill the Eastern Transvaal border town of Komatipoort. Out of seventy residents there were 08 cases and ten deatlis, including the district surgeon and railway foreman. Scores of Zulu kraals are deserted. Doctors who have been supplemented are experiencing difficulties in treating the natives who are clinging to old remedies and relying on witch doctors. One of these ground a gramophone record to make the patient- talk and mixed it with water from an engine to make him go. The pnitient recovered, resulting in the wholesale theft of records. No natives have cut sugar cane in many areas. The Government is issuing quinine.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1929, Page 5
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139MALARIA & FEVER Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1929, Page 5
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