OVER 800 ON DEATH-LIST
FLORIDA HURRICANE PREVENTION OF PESTILENCE (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 9.5 a.m. PALM BEACH (Florida), Friday. As relief units worked to prevent epidemics among the refugees, the of ficial hurricane death-toll is placed at 860 lives Red Cross. The roads are almost impassably flooded, therefore the workers are attempting to move supplies by boat to the devastated centres. The dead are being burled hasitly, and flooded marshes are believed to hold other bodies to add to the toll. Extraordinary measures have been taken to prevent a typhoid outbreak among the refugees, and are believed to be successful. Milk is being pasteurised, water chlorinated, and a large part of the population given typhoid vaccine.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 466, 22 September 1928, Page 1
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122OVER 800 ON DEATH-LIST Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 466, 22 September 1928, Page 1
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