RUSSIA.—DREADFUL MORTALITY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 388, 23 July 1856, Page 6

RUSSIA.—DREADFUL MORTALITY.

ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DEATHS BY TYPHUS

Vienna, March 11

The reason why it is firmly believed here that peace will be concluded, is because the true state of things in " Russia is perfectly well known. We are aware that typhus has committed great ravages at Nicholaieri; "but we are somewhat disclined to believe that things are so bad as is represented in the following letter, which has been received by the Oesterreichisch Zcitung

Odessa, Feb. 29,

" A terrible complaint—the typhus—prevails in our city, and it is particularly violent among the troops. Above 20,000 are now in the hospitals, and thousands have already died. Despite the greatest exertions it is extremely difficult to f"n I accommodation for so many patients. Hospitals have been established in the very midst ot that part of the city which is inhabited by the better classes and thousands of patients occupy them, but physicians and proper nurses are wanting. In one week twelve military physicians and four medical men in private practice died. Among them were two Americans, who were about to return home. The typhus iias committed terrible ravages in the whole of Southern Russia, and particularly in those places which are near the theatre of war. Bakshiserai, Simpberopol, Kherson, and Nicholaieff, are almost empty. It is estimated that this pestilence has already carried off 100,000 men. It is gradually spreading over Bessarabia.