SPREAD OF TYPHUS
GERMAN TERRITORY
(Rec. 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, Feb. 19
A private report received here from a neutral who visited Warsaw in December states that the Germans, though they are ordering mass removals of the population, creating large camps of prisoners, and depriving most of' the population of sufficient food, 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 persons were stricken with fever. The Germans themselves were reluctant to use the tramways, for fear of becoming infected. The disease is spreading rapidly,1 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, 30 fatal cases. have been reported, and 17.have died at Tours. The disease has also appeared in Holland and Belgium.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 43, 20 February 1942, Page 6
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