2023-07-23 11:49:12
It was a typhoid epidemic that affected our military region in the spring and summer of 1885: according to the newspaper “La Lanterne” of July 10, 1885, there were 330 cases established in Marseille hospitals, of which 273 are recovering. If the influx of patients continues, it is planned to evacuate to the least affected camps in the region, or even to Lyon, Avignon and even Corsica… Except for that of Saint-Victoret, the camp at the origin of the The epidemic. At the camp of Pas-des-Lanciers, the situation is serious Since 1869, a military camp was located in the commune of Saint-Victoret, receiving units of the XVth Army Corps. In May 1885, a so-called “Tonkin reserve” division was stationed there, within which typhoid fever soon broke out. “I
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