Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-04-15
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Lack Of Doctors aud Nurses
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Captain Fl ~ Bennett, 0
4 lCsommissioner In Serbia for HE Brit
ish Red Cross Society.
Nish. Serbia Iere is the picture
Iof an Austrian prisoners canp. This
4 IS not q hospital RENE einber. hut sim
4 ply an area where $50 Ailstrians have
a been collected. Naverthe e1ess disease
4 has fallen like "a blight upon tie
4 camp At an earl len itlte one doe
4 tor was In charge nf this camp, but he
was struck down hy w phus. Iyphus,
Il idystant tAry, smallpox d iphtheria have
lswept over he place Last week
ionly 20 men out Ok SO could stand
ien their feet.
y There they IA III utter wretehed-
mess. The bulk OF the sick men are
lstretched out on the muddy ground.
Their clothes are foul and alive With
the yermin which spread the deadly
a ltyphuss The silence uf i le canip is
Y broken only by sigh hs and grnans, but
when a st tran ger comes lii Sigh the
fsick raise tlemse elves on their el-
Il bows, II they can, and cry pitifuIly,
For the love Of God, lady give ,la
water
Dead lie Tor Several Days.
a recent visitor noticed Il number bl'
iof rscumbeIit fornlss covered with
great coats, and found bn removing
these that i've out of the number
We're already dead and had been
dead Tor several days There was no.
body to remove the coTpsess Here
and there some pooi. wretch crapIed
labont on his hands and knees to fetch
II cup OF ter to d pEnstrate com
q ratle, This was all the attendances
II which IS visible. and the shocking
acondition OF the men and the ground
on which they lie can be imagined,
Can anyone be surprised tc learn
that about sixty men die In this camp
Ieyery day.
fried the Impossible
Here lis a Brit tief hospital which
tried to do the impossible and failed.
I Six doctors and tWelye orderlies1s
i they had no nurses took ever the
jc0ntrol OF some /, 800 sick ana wound
ed They have fought gaIlant fieI1x
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fr,,ai.,aa U. He Vs. peeh
ia,.s 4, IaoW
= z aIe
81! tom me aIle. dlse ease and
and three ord derlies are all that rs.
main on the active 1ist II y
of the hospital haa mad r,nrfo ~,
be Temporarily abandoned what
icould SIX doctors AZ, With I Sf,f, Il, s.,
3. 6, s-ts
svoIse stli aress the conditions I'M
VT W, i,icil !. ne serpian doctors have
iaps'f l'1Aes 81. a. ine poor Austrian Prison
r sIs, ~ lhess Is Only assistant the doctors
s1 ilys1TT.nere are NO; SERBIAN nur
", tiasli osst Dut ~ are lot train
g orueriies. y 1el. AXE A. large Serbian
6 tically impossible TO go near it 80
street outside that nobody Who 'sis ssl
not compelled to approach the build.
ing can bear to be In its vi sinity.
petsits c.nan. 1
.,ss'sss I. = = & '.,.su
& I, 'sstalth 81 the interior cannot well
" .,.s p1I'i1eu, puts ma be conJeefIireslI
49, oils hehtlons foul ig gs and
~ uis'ssinss ahd even portions OF anapus
ss.lsl iaIlps Y are thrown over a wfaiI Z
anu ls'Ils eo sne II tenfion of crows and
alias 81 ples ana parish dogs. nilaIs
lsluse mas Deen y llroWil into the riys
Since the commencement OF she
war xty-three Serbian doctors have
died IN the course of their unequal l
SLTHggie with disease ()f1 81 Ss WI, i, fs ,