DIPHTHERIA IN RUSSIA.
The Russian journal called the "Voice" gives a lau.en ablo account of the pro gross of dipntheria in Russia in Europe. It is but thirty years ago that this disease first attracted attention in that empire, and now it has become the most formidable of the maladies ordinarily prevalent. It has spread over seventeen of the fifty European provinces, and during the last six years it has ravaged continuously the southern provinces of Poltava, Kherson, Kharkow, Catherinoslaw, Kiew, and Bessarabia. The "zemstvos"of these provincos have found it necessary for three years to prepare special returns of the disease, and they declare that it has become a public calamity. Moreover, the report of the medical department of the Minister of the Interior shows that of the total mortality of Buesia, the greatest, part is now due to diphtheria. In Poltava the mortality from diphtheria is so enormous that it exceeds by I*6 por cent, the number of births.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1935, 7 May 1880, Page 3
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