The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-04-11
TYPHlJS SPRE AIDING
THROUGH CONTAGION
in Serbia and NotAIone byVer-
min Writes Wife of Min
lister of Agriculture.
~ ASSOCIATED rResr,

NEW YORK, April i Q. B elief Is
becoming common in Serbia that the
disappearing and fatal typhus there
is communicated not only by vermin
but by simple coneag1on through the
air breathed, according to letter
from Nine. Voya Marionkovitch, wife
of the Serbian minister of agriculture.
She reports that the Serbian army
continues generally untouched by the
fever, but its ravages among the Aus
trian prisoners and civilians of all
classes all over Macedonia and Serbia
continue without abatement. The let
ter is to her sister. Mile. Helene Los
anitch who is noWtin New York in
the interests of Serbian relief.
They say it is al dirt disease he
writes, and yet6so many Of the cases
ARE those Of persons who frequently
battle and use antiseptics. that one is
forced to believe the contagion is in
the very air we breathe. After every
precautio ion has been taken in hospitals
wounded as well as doctors and
nurses continue to fall ILL., is5H
Nine. Marionkovitch reports the
deathiof Nine. Lukovitch, presid ent Of
the Serbian Circle Of Sisters, who
contracted typhus while on a visit of
inspection to the hospitals at Valevo.
although during her illness she knew
she was condemned to death, she did
not once comp plain. but died as heroic
a woman as she had lived. says the
writer. &
Fear Hot Weather.
I've greatly fear she continued.
that during the hot weather the dis
ease will spread as 1t did during the
Bulgarian war. All our hope lies in
the Rockefeller Commission, which,
as you know, came out to Investigate
conditions They have promised to
recommend that the Rockefeller
Foundation and the American Red
Cross send US sanitary commission:
composed Of bacterio1ogists. and of
doctors and nurses skilled IN treating
tropical diseases. Please swhilesyou are
RIGA send US reports which
have been ub1ished in any OF the
medical papers of work done j ia con
Enection with typhus or other tropical
diseases. It would be OF great use to
our doctors OF these could be trans
lated into Serbian 5s
DO please tell me once IL they
have done anything in America by
way OF sinoculating gainststyphus. All
present there is nothing to help lit
but careful #nursing s. It is said that
over SO per cent. die OF heart failure.
on about the tenth day OF the illness.
When each day bring news of&the
deaths, mot only CT those OF our poor
er classes, but ct so many OF those of
our own class. i sometimes wonder
Who will be left to inherit the Great
.er5 Serbia which we are promised BY
the great pcwcrs as commentator for
salls we have #suff cred
i3s3 ]. ~. 81 hear tina t our men al well as
/ the Russians whoswere taken .prigon-
/ ers are all s& dying in the detention
camps Of Austria, and thar the vii
lslages OF southern Austria are even
more nor. severely stricken with ttyphus
thar. those here. \.
En- u for the awful ttde pres sion and
hear tbreaking sorrow Of this epidem-
nc, the country would be feeling al
most normal s 435 n.
For once the Danube has done us
"a noble service-7its inundntdon. per
shaps more than any thin else. has
prevented the AustrinnsS from even
attempting an invasion OF our land
since hey were \ driven ont about the
middle of December. Now. 3 4 our
army lis refo rmed reclothed. revic-
stHled, let them com il they want an
othrer beating such as sw e gave them.
The, ststime. IT is a comfort to know.
that the army has been put under
shelter In peasant houses or sheds
especial Ivy for tt1 en-. 4,