DEADLY DANGER
TYPHUS IN RUSSIA. WESTERN EUROPE THREATENED. By Telegraph.—Press .Assn.-—Copyright. London, August 13. Dr. Copeland, of the New York Board of Health, who recently toured the Russian frontier, declares, as the result of inquiries, that the whole of Western Europe is threatened with an appalling typhus wave in the near future, according to responsible authorities. He said he was no prophet, but he would be amazed if Poland was not swept by typhus or cholera next winter, and Western Europe and America were in serious danger, the latter owing to the large influx of European immigrants.
He saw a train disembark 600 emaciated and verminous refugees from Siberia, herded in trucks. Two thousand others died en route. The bodies were thrown on the railway track and left to rot. This was a typical instance. The published reports did not do justice to the horrors of the situation. The remedy was to feed, clothe and doctor the refugees, of whom it was expected there would be 1,500,000 before wniter.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1922, Page 7
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