The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-28
A DISEASED ARMY
Seventy Per Cent of BOlshevik
Troops Have Social Diseases.
Spread Sickness to Many Ad-
joining Countries.
PLAQUES IN CENTRAL EUROPE
Peoples, Weakened by War,
Unable To Resist Germs.
Typhus, Cholera and Smallpox
Take Heavy Toll.
PLAQUES IN CENTRAL EUROPE

Take Heavy Toll.
Correspondence of the Associated Press,
Stanislau. Ukraine, June Ibis
eases imported from Russia by the
way of Kiev and Odessa are spread
ing to such an alarming extent that
the government has closed the from
tiers and closely examined civil refu-
gees and other former prisoners of
war returning to their homes. An in
vestigation by the International Red
Cross mission shows that possibly rs
per cent of the population of Lem
berg and other centers of old Galicia
are infected by the various forms of
typhus, dysentery, tuberculosis or
other infectious or mental and new
Gus diseases.
These diseases are spreading partly
from Russia. where it is affirmed that
the Red army is contaminated with
social disease to the extent of 20 per
cent.
Much Social Disease.
The conditions are considered worse
here owing to closer contact with
Russia. In one hospital here are 500
cases of tvphus and 600 cases of So
cial diseases. For a population of
100000 there are but sixty physi-
clans. Thus far six doctors have died
The conditions are made worse by lack
of soaps. disinfectants. change of
clothing and sheets. Virtually all the
window curtains have been reQuisi-
toned for use as bed clothing or for
making women's underclothes.
OF total of ESQ drug stores. 200
are without drugs. In the hospitals
all kinds of cases are treated in the
same wards
MANY diseases Ivare sDraad IN, E,s
sian prisoners who were interned in
Hungary and who have returned to
Russia since the armistice was signed.
Many of these were in a horrible con-
dition. When set free by the author
tiles and told to go home. they crowd
ed the trains in such numbers and
under such conditions that thousands
died of hunger and illness on the way.
One trainload stopped here and dig
charged 800 dead More than 5000
such unfortunates now have been
buried here.
In one week there arrived at Kiev
trains freighted with 500 dead.
Little Children Victims.
Constantinople, April % (By mail.)
American British. French and
Greek physicians are striving with
might and main to prevent an out
break of the plague in the region ex-
lending along the north shore of the
Aegean sea from Saloniki to Constan-
tinople. In this work the British,
French and Greek armies and the
American Red Cross are cooperating.
Eastern Macedonia which has been
a battle-ground for centuries and
which since 1912 has been fought over
again and again is today a horrible
mess.
From the big Red Cross warehouse
at Kavalla housing three hundred
IA mil of
dozen dead from typhus were re-
moved daily last month. The refugees
were easy victims after many months
OF semi-starvation in Bulgaria.
The children of Eastern Macedonia
are pitiful sights. suffering the results
ribs showing plainly thru their taut
drawn flesh. With hollow lack-lustre
eyes they lie about on the streets in
the sun Indifferent to their fate.
Each day tens of thousands of
loaves of bread are distributed by the
Red Cross in dozens of Serbian, Mace
DOMAIN and Rumanian cities. Bales
of clothing are given out to the need
lest. Serums against disease are in
tected in thousands of peasants and
'delousing" baths are given to those
living in crowded centers
Awful Sights in Armenia.
London.-''The sights one sees in
Armenia are almost beyond belief. and
the tales one hears are too CHASTITY to
be inventions"
This is an extract from a letter an
Armenian medical officer writing
from the base of Mount Ararat, to a
fellow countryman in London. The
letter says:
Fear Cholera Outbreak.
Bucharest. April 10 Thy mail) The
typhus epidemic which has claimed
tons of thousands of lives in Ruma MIA
in the last two and half years is still
smouldering but American Red Cross
physicians who are watching the spor-
adic outbreaks believe that the disease
has burned itself out" Their great
est worries now are the dangerous out
breaks of smallpox and isolated cases
OF cholera.
The Near East today, according to
American. British and French physi-
clans who have completed their sur
veys. is ripe for an outbreak of chol-
era and the plague. Under nourish-
ment. famine and the strain of war
upon the civilian and military popula-
tions has undermined the health of the
nations Of the Balkans.
When Brain Weary
TAKE HORSFORD'S ACID PHOS-
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