Ukrainian Polesie as a focus of scleroma

In 1911 prof. Volkovich reported 128 cases of scleroma, recorded at different times in b. Russia. Of these, 27 (21 %) cases were from the Ukrainian Polesie (former okrugs - Volynskiy, Korostenskiy, Shepetovskiy and part of the former Volyn province, now occupied by Poland). Thus, already 20 years ago in Polesie there was a nested spread of scleroma, while in the rest of Russia (USSR) isolated cases were observed, and even those were almost all from ethnographic Ukraine. For 15 years (1911-1926) Kordatova collected statistical data on 150 6, of which 8 from the Ukr. Polesie. Kalina (Odessa) notes 3 cases from here.