"HUNGER TYPHUS" IN GERMANY
A number of letters found on prisoners taken in the fighting around Verdun in August and September refer in the most pessimistic terms to the prevalence of dangerous epidemic? in Germany. More thau half of the letters captured on several thousand prisoners state that dysentery is raging idmost everywhere in the Empire. It is mentioned in letters from CoiogneMulheim, Coburg, Burstadt, Guben, Langcn, Lichtenborg, Altona, Wiesbaden, Polinow, Stettin, Eickel. Zanow, Hallo, Duisburk-lluhrort, and other places. All these letters are dated August and September. A letter from Burstadt states: I think it must soon come to an end. Things cannot go on like this. The peoplj behind the lines are also disappearing. At Mannheim tha.y liave had dysentery ever so long. Many roads are closed. And now .it has come here. . . . People are dying almost like flies." A writer from Guben says: "Today some more people have died. Always dysentery. It is terrible."
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 74, 20 December 1917, Page 5
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