Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1888 — Russian Sanitation. [ARTICLE]

Russian Sanitation.

In an aggregate population of 100,000,000 in Russia, according to Dr. Bubnoff, there are only about 5,000 medical men, while no working sanitary system can be said to exist in the empire. In some district the deathrate ranges from 60 to 80 per 1,000, and in spite of a high birth-rate the population of the country is increasing only at the rate of 1 per cent. That a frightful penalty in human lives is paid for neglect of public health is shown by the fact that of the total of some 2,800,000 yearly deaths something like 1,000,000 may ’ fairly be traced to preventable causes.— Arkansaw Traveler,