SPOTTED TYPHUS
Outbreak In Poland LONDON, January 7. A message from Berne says that neutral health officers returning from Germany disclose that 300 persons are dying daily from spotted typhus in the Warsaw ghetto, which is the worst centre of the epidemic raging throughout Boland. They add that isolated cases of spotted typhus ape also reported in Finland, Yugoslavia, Rumania, the Netherlands and Belgium. The authorities are trying desperately to prevent the epidemic spreading throughout Europe. Doctors blame malnutrition and also the catastrophic lack of fuel, which causes multitudes to congregate for warmth, and also the continuous large civilian migrations in view of military necessities, and troop movements.
"Of the predisposing causes tlie most powerful are overcrowding and great poverty,” an authority in a recent edition of the “Encyclopaedia Britannica” on typhus fever. "Armies in the field arc also liable to suffer from this disease. During the Crimean War it caused enormous mortality among the French troops. .| . . It is now known to be conveyed by lice.”
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 89, 9 January 1942, Page 6
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