Rubber Tapper Family Hospitalised

(Utusan Malaysia 6-1-75). A family of 7 from the Sik District were hospitalised due to undernourishment. According to the father, a Malay rubber tapper, his family had insufficient food because both he and his wife were ill and could not work. A director of Medical and Health Services confirmed that the family had been admitted suffering from malaria. He said that they could have caught malaria as a result of under-nourishment.