The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-04-04
Feeling Runs High at Rockport.
KY, and Special Deputies
Are on Guard.

BALTIMORE. Apr. 3.'.If America
Wants to help Serbia light the spread
OF typhus fever, which Is now sweep
ing that country, the best thing to do
is to send shipload OF clotlring, and
sent 1t at once" says DR.. William III.
WEIGH. Of the John Hop ins4 UNIVERSITIES
VINO has an international reputation
as an authority on bacteriologic
diseases AZ ss }:
Kelly. also Of Johns Hopkins, Is as
member of the special emergency com
mittee OF prominent American lnedi-
cal men. who have been named BY the
Serbian Agricultural Relief Commit
tee or America TO devise plans for ats
lacking the typhus problem in Ser
bla and to prevent its sweeping nortIi7s
ward through Europe
The means OF combating the spread
OF the disease are we'll known and
simple. There is no direct cure for 81.
once contracted. any more than there
is for typhoid fever. Still the state
ment that typllus is incurarble is mis-
leading. Its cure is careful nursing.
The mortality rate is about 40 per
cent i
Typhus, which is the old Jail fever
at one time preVa lent In certain parts
Of this country, is a disease spread by
body parasites, by vernlfn The only
means OF tsulating it is to segregatc
the victims Of the disease and to burn
their clothing. Unless this is done
the parasites leave the bodies. Of the
infected persons for those Of the ur-s
infected, carrying the disease with
them. The spread is somewhat SINH
lar to that of bubonic plague, which
Is carried by feas that infest rats.
The Serbians, ordinarily Clearly
people, hdve been forced as a result
Of the war to live in the most I'M
sanitary ways. They sleep IN straw.
sometimes, with a single blanket to
cover two or three persons They are
huddled together IN close personal
con tact and there is no means of seq
resating those suffering from typhus.
Their clothing cannot. be burned, for
they possess only that which they
wear. 55s@585 s7l II n 5s5 g9
Within week ship couldn't
should-be sent from New York or
some other American port with cloth
ing and sanitary supplies Then the
physicians on the scene could destroy
the clothing OF all persons who might
have upon them the disease carrying
rermin, and thus hold the plague IN
check
During the Civil war, typhus
spread among the soldiers. and also
existed III jails and prisons. Twas
finally stamped out and is now prac4
.tically unknown IN the United States.
For a long time typhus and typhoid
were confused, although the diseases
are entirely different. Typhufd affects
particularly the intestinal tract whfIes
typhus has no decided location ia the
body. It's symptoms are rather Tike
those Of an extremely malignant ma
laria
There is very real danger. Of
the spread Of typhus to the battle
grounds Of Europe. In which event it#
will probably kill more soldiers than
abullets and shells. It's present as
pect in Serbia resembles IN its erect
that awful black death which swept
over Europe in the fourteenth cen
tury, causing 100. 900 deaths In Lon
don alone"
Dr. WEIGH stated that persons WISH
ing to donate supplies should send
them to Bush Terminal !. New Yor1.
City, marked For, Serbian Relief, q
while checks and money should, be
sent to the Serbian "a gricultu Re
lief Committee OF America, 90 Fifth
avenue. New York City, or to j. p. ii
Morgan and Company, New York City,
marked For Serbian sanitary relief.'.