MYSTERIOUS SICKNESS ON DOMINION MONARCH
CAPETOWIN, Decenxber 12. fl A mysterious sickness, involving ■ 250 of the 1000 passengers aboard I the Dominion Moxiarch, swept the ■ vessei between Londioii and Cape- ■ town, but was not sufficient to pre" fl vent her continuing her voyage to ■ New Zealand via Anstralia. fl The first symptoms came seven ■ days out from Tilbury, when passen-B gers complained of severe intestiiwfl pains, diaimhoea and sickness. I The ship's doctors called a confo-fl ence of a riumber of doctor passen-B gers who investigated the trouhtefl which, it is 'believed, was due to the S ship's water. Members of the crewB told them that the tanks had not beenfl recondi'tioned •since 1939, and similar ■ outbreaks had occurred on other voy-fl ages' c •,]■ The secretary of the Shaw bavii ■ •Campany, Mr. Ralph Hodson, sawl that the trouble seemed to be due toa contamination of food. fl
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5278, 13 December 1946, Page 4
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147MYSTERIOUS SICKNESS ON DOMINION MONARCH Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5278, 13 December 1946, Page 4
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