EPIDEMIC AMONG REFUGEES
DOCTORS BAFFLED (Rec. January 5, 5.5 p.m.) Berlin, January 4. The doctors admit that they are baffled by the epidemic among refugees from Russia how encamped at Hammerstein. Fifty-two children under four years of age have already died and forty are dangerously ill. The illness takes the form of a sudden fever, with Inflammation of the lungs, proving fatal in a few hours. The malady is believed to be due to a rare streptococcus. The whole of the children have been inoculated and the camp strictly isolated. One of the difficulties is that the Men nonite refugees are similar to Christian Scientists, who place more faith in prayer than doctors. Most of the victims were weakened by a recent attack of measles. [A message published on Saturday stated that a mysterious epidemic had broken out amongst fifteen hundred children of the Mennonites, encamped at Kammerstein, Pomerania.]
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 86, 6 January 1930, Page 9
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