The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-26
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UNITED Press Leased Wire Service1 ]
ATHENS, May 26.-king constan-
tine Of Greece continues extremely
weak. An official bulletin Issued to-
day gave his temperature at 9e.5 and
pulse at e6. Physicians do not con-
ceal the gravity Of his condition.
MISERABLE SERBIA,
[By Henry Wood, United Press STAFF
Correspondent.
NiScH, Serbia, April 24.-(By mall
to New Iork.)-Fifty thousand typhus
victims and wounded soldiers lie In
hospitals and isolation camps In Ser
bia today without even bed or cheap
mattress to ease their suffering,
stretched out on the ground or the
hard floor.
Their condition Is shocking. Thou
sands Of those disease sufferers are
still clothed In the same germ-infect-
ed garments they wore when they
we're first brought In.
There Is nothing here to replace
them.
Hundreds Of fever patients are dy-
Ing daily from lack Of thermometers
to ascertain the seriousness Of their
condition. There is crying need for
sauze for the wounded, for clean
clothing for the typhus victims, for
beds, for mattresses, for blankets, for
all sorts Of medical supplies and sur
gicaI instruments-for- the simplest
things that will give the heroic little
band of physicians and Red Cross
nurses an even chance in the fight
against death. =
Lieut.. Col. v. M. soubotitch, head
Of the Serbian Red Cross detailed
these conditions to me today. He
asked the United Press to carry an
appeal both to the American govern
ment and to the American people for
additional aid for the disease ridden
little kingdom.
"The situation In Serbia Is without
a parallel" said the Red Cross leader.
"We had In our ~hoepitals a Few days
ago 4e,so2 patients and the number
was steadily Increasing. OF these T.
704 are soldiers recovering from
battle wounds. Nearly all the remain
der are typhus victims. And these
figures do not take into account the
sweep Of the epidemic through the
civilian population where there must
be at least 100000 cases. With our
independe nee at stake we must look
first to our army.
"Serbia does not lack food. But she
does lack the most elemental medical,
surgical and hospital supplies needed
to fight tremendous typhus plague.
We have ia hospitals where victims
are under treatment. Not one Of them
has complete set Of Instruments.
"For both the military and civil pop
ulation, we have had since the begin
ming Of the war just 400 doctors. This
number includes all the Serbian ply
sicians and those sent to US by other
nations. OF this little band, 1o5 have
died Of typ1us. The others are risk
ing their lives every day in an unequal
fight, lacking medical and surgical
equipment.
ave have urgent need right now Of
three million yards Of eauze. We need
I SOC, 900 pairs of Whits shirts and
drawers So that when our typhus
patients are brought to US we can
burn their Infected clothing and give
them other clothing clean and fresh.
We need $1,000 beds, the same num-
Der Of mattresses, $4,000 pillows, 15o,-
600 blankets and $4,000 sacks that we
can fill with straw and use as beds. |
Then, too, there Is a pressing need
Fer artificial limbs and artificial eyes
for the soldiers wounded in battle.
"Cortrlbutions Of all kinds, both In !,
money and supplies, can be made to !;
Frof. Pupin, the Serbian consul gen.
eral at New York, who will arrange
for their forwarding. We need money,
reed 1t badly" =. |