TYPHUS SPREADING
EPIDEMIC IN EUROPE EFFECT OF WAR MEASURES. CARRIED OUT BY GERMANS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY, February 19. A private report received here from a neutral who visited Warsaw in December states that the Germans, through ordering mass removals of population, creating large camps of prisoners and depriving most of the population of sufficient fdod, are directly responsible for the appalling spread of typhus. The epidemic involves the whole of Poland. The neutral was informed that during November some 37,000 were stricken with the fever. The Germans themselves are reluctant to use the tramways for fear of becoming infected. The disease is spreading rapidly and in Berlin itself deaths from it are not unknown. Reports from other sources show that typhus iS spreading generally in the occupied countries. Soldiers from the Russian front are said to be the cause. At St. Nazaire, on the west coast of France, thirty fatal cases have been reported and seventeen persons have died at Tours. The disease has also appeared in Holland and Belgium.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 February 1942, Page 2
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