APPALLING TYPHUS WAVE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2468, 17 August 1922, Page 1

APPALLING TYPHUS WAVE.

WESTERN EUROPE THREATENED. AMERICAN DOCTOR’S PREDICTION . LONDON, Aug. IdDr. Copeland, of the New York Board of Health, who recently toured the Russian frontier, declares, as a result of his enquiries, that the whole of Western Europe is threatened with an appalling typhus wave m the neiu future according to responsible autho - ties. He said lie was no prophet, hut he would be amazed if .Poland was not swept by typhus or cholera next w inter. Western Europe and America were in serious danger, the latte owing to the large influx pi European immigrants. He saw a tram disoni >**• v _ GOO emaciated and verminous refugees from Siberia, who had been herder trucks. Two thousand others died ei route. Their bodies were thrown on tlie railway track and left to rot. was a typical instance. Published reports did not do justice to the horrois of tlie situation. The remedy "as tl > feed, clothe and doc-tor the refugees, o whom it was expected there would he a million and a hall before the wnitei.ITnited Service.