TYPHUS EPIDEMIC IN SIBERIA
6000 FRESH CASES DAILY. Omsk, October 18. The American Red Cross Mission work-ins in Western Siberia reports a groat typlms epidemic. There hnvo been 1:10,000 cases among the Siberian troops since January, and there are now 60110 fresh cases daily. Kolclmk's reverses are attributed to lack of sanitary facilities. The disease is rapidly spreading among tho civil population owing to Bolshevik refugees crowding into the cities. Thousands are living in dugouts in the fields. The mortality amougst children is DO per cent.—Renter.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 22, 21 October 1919, Page 7
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86TYPHUS EPIDEMIC IN SIBERIA Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 22, 21 October 1919, Page 7
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