The socialists faced typhus and malaria in Malaga in

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The war not only produced casualties due to combat and illnesses among soldiers in Morocco. The Socialist denounced that these diseases were reaching the Peninsula . The cities that welcomed the sick returning from Africa began to feel the effects of the contagion especially typhus and malaria. The workers' newspaper wanted to make it clear that it did not want to be alarmist but there were populations that had seen cases of these two diseases increase highlighting the city of Malaga. The measures to prevent the plague from jumping to the Peninsula were not known.

The socialists intended to sound the alarm about this fear recalling their constant and historical opposition to the war. The socialist newspaper alluded to the news provided by correspondent Evaristo J. Navarrete in this regard about the increase in typhus CXB Directory and malaria patients in the Municipal Beneficencia and in other establishments almost always patients of humble condition. In view of this the socialist councilors Rafael Abolafio de las Heras and Antonio Valenzuela García founder of the Socialist Group of Malaga and the first socialist councilor in said city in a history of Andalusian and Spanish socialism called the attention of the tifmayor .



This complaint prompted an investigation. Apparently it had been found out that the most affected areas of the city were in the neighborhoods where the clothes of the soldiers coming from Morocco were washed and which had not been disinfected before. In view of this the mayor offered his help to the military authorities by providing disinfection material for the municipal health park. The chronicler explained that it was a rare day when couriers did not arrive at the port of Malaga with a multitude of sick people in a very difficult situation "with cadaverous faces barely able to stand up." The number of malaria patients was very high and in many homes there were patients with this disease. The chronicler himself alluded to his personal case. Firstly children had suffered from it and at the time of the chronicle two elderly people had suffered from it.