STRICKEN SIBERIA.
TUBERCULOSIS RAMPANT.
'HEAVY INFANTILE MORTALITY. LONDON. Feb. 7. A Soviet scientific expedition, which lias investigated the Yakutsk district of Siberia, says the Riga correspondent of the Times, reports that a majority of the population is tubercular. Optical tuberculosis is prevalent, causing blindness.
More than half tho children die because their mothers are unable to nurse them. Tubercular cattla predominate in the herds.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19254, 17 February 1926, Page 12
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