Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1878 — Frightful Mortality. [ARTICLE]

Frightful Mortality.

The Russian Government has estimated its loss of soldiery at over 80,000, but there has been, probably, quite as large a loss of Russian subjects, other than military, from maladies arising ont of the war. At Alexandropol, owing to the passage through the town, since the war began, of 70,000 sick and wounded, and the neglect of th 4 sanitary authorities to take the requisite precautions, there is so much disease that all who can have left the town; the death rate has reached 55 in 1,000. At Tiflis all the doctors of the Red Cross Society are dead. In the Caucasus a plague is expected. The Turkish prisoners from Armenia are all more or less infeoted with disease, and wherever they go epidemics fallow in their train. At PeDza small pox and measles are so rife that public schools and institutions have been closed by Government order. The official report gives an invalid to every house. Near St. Petersburg the black soiall poi, a form of the Persian plague, has broken out among the Turkish prisoners at Gatchina, and is causing great alarm at the capital. A month ago 10,009 sick anl wounded were at Sistova await ng removal, so many of whom were suffering from typhus that it was proposed to have typhus specials to carry those s > afflicted — New York Sun.