PETROGRAD IN THE GRIP OF DEADLY EPIDEMICS.
COMPLETE BREAKDOWN OF HEALTH ARRANGEMENTS Times. PETROGRAD, Jan. 29. Epidemics, as the result of malnutrition, are decimating the population. Spotted typhus, which is more dangerous than plague, is rampant. The Bolsheviks having abolished , the Public Health Bureaux, there has been no registration of diseases. Few doctors remain, ignorant doorkeepers and cooks commanding at the hospitals. The food is frightfully adulterated, an excessive quantity of straw chaff being mixed with the bread, of which only a quarter of a pound is irregularly distributed. In Finland the bread is being made of moss and sawdust mixed with small quantities of flour.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16762, 31 January 1918, Page 5
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