Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1898 — PESTILENCE RAGES IN COREA [ARTICLE]

PESTILENCE RAGES IN COREA

Alarming Reports Come from All Parts of the Peninsula. Advices from Hong Ivoug tell of a pestilence which is decimating the population of Corea faster than could an aggressive invading army. From every town comes alarming news of death from various diseases caused by heat and filth. There are no sanitary arrangements and* the disease must run its awful course. At Seoule, where the health board has matters in hand, the death rate is comparatively small, hut In the outlying towns and cities the percentage of deaths per thousand ia fur in excess of any published statistics to date.