BARRACKS OVERCROWDED.
'EPIDEMIC AMONG THE FRENCH -.".■;.. SOLDIERS. ,By Teleeraph-Press Aesooiatiou--Ooi>srlelit Paris, -February 13. J There are extraordinary epidemics of scarlet feve_r, pneumonia, and perebroI spinal; meningitis. Eight hundred vicr tims'are.iu hospital at Toul (a firstclass military, port 14 miles west o_f Nancy, tho former capital of Lorraine) and five hundred at Nancy. Many other 'garrisons are also affected.- ~"''.. - There havo been numerous deaths. Tho epidemic is duo to overcrowding, caused by tho presence of 185,000 extra recruits, and delay in the constructing of new barracks.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1985, 16 February 1914, Page 5
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85BARRACKS OVERCROWDED. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1985, 16 February 1914, Page 5
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