MYSTERIOUS DISEASE
MENNONITES’ CHILDREN IN PRUSSIA ATTACKED DOCTORS BAFFLED ' (“Times” Cables.) (Rcc. January 3, 7.30 p.m.) Berlin, January 2. A mysterious epidemic has broken out amongst fifteen hundred children of the Mennonites, encamped at Hammerstein, Pomerania. The disease, which at first was thought to be measles, turns out to be a kind of fever, which leads to death a few hours after the first appearance of the symptoms. Forty children are already dead, and the doctors are baffled by the malady, which apparently does not attack adults. [The Mennonites in question are refugees from Russia. They are descendants of Germans who settled in Russia 150 years ago. The majority of them wish to go to Canada, and the German Government is providing accommodation for them until their future has been decided.]
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 85, 4 January 1930, Page 9
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