Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-04-12
BELIEVE TYPHUS
IS COMMUNICATED
THROUGH THE AIR
Letter From Wife of Serbian
Cabinet Minister Throws
New Light on Spread OF
Deadly Epidemic,

New York. April il.--Relicf Is be-
coming common In Serbia That the
fast spreading and fatal typhus therr
is communicated not only by Ncrmln
hut by simple cOntaglou through the
air hreathcd, according To a l'tter
from Mime. Noya MuriOnkoNtch Wlle
Of the Serbian minister of agriculture,
She reports that the serbian army
continues generally untouched hN the
fever. but It's ravagcs among the AUS
trinn prisoners aud civilians ot all
classes an over Macedonia and Ser
hia continue without abatement The
letter Is To her sister, Mile. Helene
I.osaultch, who * now in New YORK
In the Interests OF serbian relief
'Thcy SAY 1t Is a dirt disease, she
writes. "and yet so many Of the cases
are those of persons who frequently
battle ana use antiseptics, that ono s
forced to believe the contaglon rs ~
the very air we bVathe After every
prccaution has been taken in hoapl-
tails. ana stricken persons isolated, the
wounded as well as doctors ami nurses
continue TO fab III
Woman Meets Heroic Death.
Nine. Marionkovitch reports the
death of Nine. LukoVtch. president OF
the Serbian circle of Sisters, who con
tracted typhus white on visit of m
spection TO the hospitals at Nalyevo
Although during her Illness she knew
she was condemned TO death, she dit
not once complain. but died as herui'
woman as she had lived. says th'
Mriter,
we greatly fear" she continued
that during the hot weather the dis
ease will spread as Ii did during tn
Bulgarian war All our hope Hes u
Che Rockefeller commission. which ~
YOU know came out Go investigate
conditions They have promised Il
recommend that the Rockefeller foun
dalton and the American Red eros
send us sanitary commission com
posed Of hacteriologsts, and OF doc
tors and nurses skilled in treauni
! tropical diseases. Please, while yol
arc In America, send us reports WhicI
have been published In any of IN
medlcai papers of work done IN con
nectiOn with typhus or other troplca
| diseases. II would be OF great use I
our doctors IL these could be translat
cd into Serbian
I 90 please tell me at once If The
| have done anything In America b
7 WHY VI illhfhltAiliN hhoiil"A ~ ifANitf -
/ present there Is nothing TO help II hu
careful nursing. it is said that owe
! 60 per cent die of heart failure, o
about the tenth day of the Illness
All Glasses Stricken.
when each DAY brings news Of IN
/ deaths not only Of those OF our poofe
I classes, but of SO many of those
our own class sometimes wonde
who will he left to inherit the create
! Serbia which we are promised hy Ga
great powers as compensation for a
We have suffered
I'VE hear that our men as wen q
1 the Russians. who were taken prison
/ ers. are all dying IN the detentio
camps OF Austria, and that the VI
! lagos of southern Austria are eve
more severely stricken with typhu
| than those here
"But for the awful depression an
| heartbreaking sorrow Of this ep
demic, the country would be feelin
I almost normal
For once the Danube has done q
noble service--its inundation. per
haps more than anything else, ha
prevented the Austrians from eve
attempting an invasion of our Ian
since they were driven out about tn
middle of December. Now that Ou
army is reformed reolothed, revle
tualed, let them come If they want an
other heating such as we gave then
the last time. II is comfort 20 know
that the army has been put undo
shelter In peasant houses or shed
constructed especially for them