DRUG ADDICTION
CAIRO'S “HUMAN REFUSE.”
'United PrCse Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
LONDON, September 12
Drug addiction has been responsible for the growth of the adult and juvenile vagrant population of the town to dangerous dimensions-states the commandant of the Cairo police in a report “The city possesses a slum population of many thousands, only describable as human refuse,” continues the report; as transmitted by the Alexandria correspondent of 'the ' “Timesi”' “The thought of them pouring out during a cholera panic, or as'ail angry mob,' presents no pleasant _prospect, This seems a veiled:reference/to Pthe. ; f rioting* on June 21. The command- 1 ant points out that the slum-dwellers live seven in a room, without sanitation. The police are dispirited 1 and weighed down by the difficulties.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1930, Page 4
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