TYPHOID EPIDEMIC

Taranaki Daily News, 8 August 1930, Page 7

TYPHOID EPIDEMIC

RAGING FOR A MONTH.

London, July 20. Tho Soviet authorities have at last acknowledged that a typhoid epidemic has broken out in Leningrad, says the Riga correspondent of the Times. The epidemic has been raging for a month, but lias been ignored owing to a desire not to disturb tho “tourist industry.” This begun with the arrival of 'Americans and Danes, whom, owing to some contracting the disease, the authorities are making an effort to rush to Moscow without staying longer in Leningrad. M. Lipkovieh ,an official of the Leningrad Health Department, announces that ho has organised 1000 beds in hospitals, and is adding another 500. He says tho epidemic is widespread among all classes. He blames the uncleanliness of the communal establishments and public eating houses, bad foodstuffs, and contaminated water, which is even used in the hospitals. He urges that the halfmillion inhabitants should be immediately inoculated. Soviet newspapers declare that the municipality continues fruitlessly to discuss 1 be. problem of cleaning’up Leningrad. ,