Family of Seven Stricken With Dysentery
ONE DEAD; TWO SERIOUSLY ILL. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. A mother and all her family of six young children were taken to hospital suffering from an acute form of dysentery.
The mother is Mrs. F. Packham, of St. Helier’s. The children's ages range from eight years to the twelve-months-old baby. One, Sylvia, aged three years, has died and the condition of two others is fairly serious. An earlier report that they were suffering from food poisoning i 3 incorrect.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 26, 1 February 1937, Page 8
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87Family of Seven Stricken With Dysentery Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 26, 1 February 1937, Page 8
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