The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-20
AMERICANS FREE
SERBIA Of PLAGUE
Sir Thomas Upton Says The
Serbians Worship AmerI-
can Red Cross Force
(By the Associated Press.

London, July 17.-"Miraculous is
the only proper adjective to apply to
the work being done by American doc
tors and nurses in Serbia" said Sir
Thomas Upton today after his return
from his second trip to the near east
with the hospital yacht Erin.
LAS usual" continued Sir Thomas,
''the Americans excel in organization
and preventive measures. The French
and English units are doing good work
in the hospitals, but conduct Of the
work of sanitation is rapidly making
typhus a thing of the past
and praise most go to
the Americans, whose magnificent
efforts have made them loved by every
Serbian from the king to the lowest
peasant, all of whom seem fully to ap-
p~reciate the efforts Of the Red Cross
in their behalf.
when l was in Serbia on my first
trip continued Sir Thomas, cit was
unsafe to travel in the country, which
was then so badly infected from
vermin as to max necessary the use
Of antiSeptics night and morning. But
on this trip no such precautions were
necessary, thanks to the sanitation re-
hospitals are now as clean as any
found in Europe, while hotels and
dwellings, are beginning to observe
sanitary regulations.
Donneny a National Hero.
"At the height Of hte epidemic
| there were probably 100000 cases Of
| typhus, but many typhus hospitals
tents, At Ghevgheli,, where DR..
| DIR. James F. Donnelly, now Serbia's
| national hero, died, there were once
1,4OO patients in the American hos
pital. Now there are only three suf-
fering from typhus.
Eat USkub [ saw in operation the
| machinery with which American doc
tors and sanitary experts are washing
| the whole nation. Near the town
three long railroad trains were stand
ing in the midst Of a city of tents.
From these tents there poured an
army of naked men carrying their
clothing in their hands. Stopping at
the first train they deposited their
clothes in a. a where an attendant
placed him under high pressure water
pipes. When he was completely
scrubbed the next step was an inspec-
ton by an American doctor, after
which the bather received sterilized
clothing.
Everyone Had To Battle.
Members of the Turkish popula.
ton, which is large in this part OF
Serbia, protested vigorously against
%disrobing for the bath on the ground
that such a procedure violated thei1
religious principles, but without avail
for the American sanitary commission
has complete power to enforce its reg
ulations. After the army Of men hat
been treated during the day, thu
women and children were given BATH
during the night.
1.-The next day~1 saw a whole regi
ment inoculated against cholera will
a speed and efficiency almost incred
IDLE to any n who does not under
stand American methods. Choler;
may come again but it is no longe
feared.
I'm brief. it can be said that Amer
lean methods of prevention and cur
have saved Serbia from what threat
, ened at one time to be the worst o
series of epidemics ever suffered b
= a modern nation.
: 1.-THE whole task is in charge Of d.
Richard p. Strong, of Harvard. t
whom the lions share Of the credit 70
$ the direction of the great work mus
be given"