Bisbee daily review., 1915-04-14
SERBIA DEPENDS ON ROCKEFELLER AID
 TO CHECK TYPHUS
Ravages Continue and Fear Isl Expressed That During Hot Weather the Dreaded Disease Will Spread.

NEW YORK April l3.-Belief is be- coming common in Serbia that the fast-spreading and fatal typhus there is communicated not only by vermin but by simple contagion through the air breathed, according to letter from Mme Voya Marionkovitch wife of the Serbian minister of agriculture. She reports that the Serbian army continues generally untoched by the
 fever but It's ravages among tho Austrian prisoners and civilians of all classes all over Macedonia and Ser bia continue without abatement. The letter is to her sister. Mile Helene Losanitch. who is now in New York in the interests of Serbian relief.
 They say it is a dirt disease" she writes "and yet SO many of the cases are those of persons who free quentIy bathe and use antiseptics, that one is forced Co believe the con- tagion IS in the very air we breathe. After every precaution has been talk en in hospitals, and stricken persons isolated, the wounded az well as doe tors and nurses continue to fall in"
 Mme Marionkovitch reports the death of Mme Lukovitch president of the Serbian Circle of Sisters. who contracted typhus while on a visit of inspection to the hospitals at Valy- eyo. Although during her illness she knew she was condemned to death. she did not once complain. but died as heroic a woman as she had lived. says the writer
 We greatly fear" she continued. "1hat during the hot weather the disease will spread as it 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 a Sanitary Commission | composed of bacteriologists. and of doctors and nurses skilled in treat ! ing tropical diseases. Please while | you are in America send us reports | which have been published in any of ! the medical papers of work done in ] connection with typhus or other tro. pical diseases. It would be of great use to our doctors if these could be | translated into Serbian.
 Do please tell me at once if they have done anything in America by way of inoculating against typhus. At present there is nothing to help ir but careful nursing It is said that over 60 per cent die O fheart failure, on about the tenth day of the ill., ness
 When each day brings news Of the deaths, not only of those of our poor CT classes, but of so many of those of our own class. I sometimes wonder who will be left to inherit the Great CT Serbia which we are promised by the Great Powers as compensation for all We have suffered.
 i've hear that our men as we'll as the Russians who were taken prison CTS are an dying in the detention camps of Austria, and that the vil- ] lages of southern Austria are even more severely stricken with typhus than those here.
 But for the awful depression and heartbreaking sorrow of this epidemic the country would be feeling about normal
 For once the Danube has done us a noble service-its inundation, per haps more than anything else, has prevented the Austrans from even attempting an invasion of our land since they were driven out about the middle of December Now that our army is reformed reclothed, revic- tuled, let them come if they want an- other beating such as we gave them the last time. It is a comfort to know that the army has been put un- der shelter in peasant houses or sheds constructed especially for them"