[The epidemic of typhus in the Polish Army in the USSR (1941-1942)]

Using the archival documents from the Sikorski Institute in London the author presented the course of the epidemic. The first cases of typhus appeared at the time of the organizing of the army in the region of Tockoje. The epidemic however broke out a bit later when the army moved to the South of the USSR. The climax of this epidemic took place in February of 1942. Altogether 7346 were taken ill with the disease and 1290 people died. After the first wave of the evacuation to Teheran there were also many civilians taken ill by this disease. The names of the doctors who died as the result of their work at the time of the epidemic were mentioned in the same article.