Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-02-19 | Page 17 | Join Forces to Combat Disease

JOIN FORCES TO I COMBAT DISEASE I NEW YORK, Fob. 18 Co-opera- I Hon between the Russian health au- I thorltles and commission of the league jt o nations In combatting disease are f described In a report from the com- mleslon Issued here today by the I Ir-ng'ir'w news bureau. Am Tho commission and the soviet au- I thorltles have worked together in a " Sanitation congress and In arranging I un antl-epldemic agreement between Russia and contiguous countries. AU An estimate ol 20,000.000 typhus ' the report states "seClM mon- : Btrous, but must bo taken as a start- j ing point In any attempt to eslmate jj--the extent of "tho eastern epidemic Kclapsing is also serious, it is rT ! ported, while in Pctrograd a virulent form of disentery became epidemic in 1920 with a mortality rate of 22 $H per cent for adults and iO per cent for ichildren. Cholera, which claimed j 140.000 cases during the first flvo , months of the year, came to a sud- tBB den end what Is usually the middle ! of the epidemic season. The refuges to be expriated are estimated es-timated at 1.500.000. The hospitals present a graphic picture pic-ture of tho misery of Russian life to- i day, says the report. In many Instances In-stances nurses receive 5,000 ruble I" i mOnth aAd fObd only oery second day. While a cake of soap in Moscow costs 8,500 rubles