AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
new disease brought b? SOLDIERS FROM EGYPT. , Australian-N.Z. Cable Association, Received July 16, 10.50 p.m. Melbourne, July I#, Mr. Pearce expresses the anxiety felt by the medical services concerning tho news of a parasitic disease affecting the returned soldiers from Egypt. It is known as the Bilharzia disease, and is usually acquired through bathing in iffeeted water. The larvae of the worm penetrates the skin and infests the bladder and the adjacent organs. The authorities are taking the necessary precautions to prevent the acclimatisation of the disease.
DECLINE IN GOLD YIELD. Received July 16, 11.10 p.m. Sydney, July 16. The Commonwealth gold yield for the half year was 727,895 ounoes, showing it has declined 12 per cent as compared with the same period in 1916,
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1917, Page 4
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