TERRIBLE DISEASE.
A terrible disease has broken out among the Chinamen employed on the Canada Pacific Railroad works in British Columbia. The case of a Chinese cook will serve to illustrate the phases of this strange malady. He sat down, apparently perfectly well to eat his dinner. His feet began to swell, and the swelling extended itself up his legs and body, reaching a vital part in about ten minutes, causing his abdomen and chest to expand in a most unnatural manner, and then tumbled down dead, all in less than fifteen minutes from the time the disease attacked him. In this way these people arc dying in dozens.
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Patea Mail, 25 June 1881, Page 3
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109TERRIBLE DISEASE. Patea Mail, 25 June 1881, Page 3
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