DEVIL’S ISLAND EPIDEMIC
PARROT FEVER KILLS 200 PRISONERS WARDER’S REVELATION PARIS, Tuesday. Two hundred prisoners out of 673 sent to Devil’s Island in November were dead by March, according to a warder’s letter to a relative. Those who died included two murderers, Barataute and Mestorino. Deceased were victims of psittacosis, or parrot disease.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 937, 2 April 1930, Page 9
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53DEVIL’S ISLAND EPIDEMIC Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 937, 2 April 1930, Page 9
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