Evening star., 1915-05-16
PLAGUE APPALLING,
SURGEON ASSERTS
Conditions in Fever Area of
Serbia Described by Dr..
R. P. Strong.
MANY PLACES REPORTED
WITHOUT MEDICAL AID
Surgeons and Nurses and Sanitation
Experts Sent to Reinforce
the Workers There.

II ldliOH commission sent unuer 1teu Gross
auspices and Rockefeller Foundation
patronage to take charge of the war
against the cholera and typhus plague.
| DIR. Strong is also medical director of
the newly organized international
health board made up of those in
charge of the various scientific COM
| missions from the countries which are
devoting themselves to the suppress
| sion of the plague.
Upon his return to Nish, following :.
second inspection trip, Dr. Strong
eabed as follows to the American Red
! Cross headquarters:
Just returned second inspection trip.
| Typhus and recurrent fever among all
| classes. Seven doctors sick typhus at
| Monastir Many places no doctors at
| all. Conditions very appalling. Work
progressing satisfactorily. All WELL
| In reinforcement of the two groups
of surgeons and nurses and sanitation
| experts sent TO Serbia in March and
| April by the American Red Cross
| twenty-seven sanitarians, nine enrolled
| American Red Cross trained nurses
and heavy consignment of medical
| and sanitary supplies are leaving New
York today. The sanitarians and sup
| plies are sailing on the steamer Athi
mai, via Piraeus. Greece. and the
nurses are sailing on the steamer Duca
d. Aosta, via Genoa, Italy.
Personnel Of the Force.
| Heading the supplemental American
group is Edward Stuart, who is to be
sanitary engineer for the commission.
He is a graduate in sanitary engineer
ing of the Massachusetts Institute of
| Technology, and for five years has
been chief engineer to the state board
of health of Oklahoma and has had
much experience in Brazil.
| Twenty-six members of the supple
mental party are sanitary inspectors
| selected by the medical bureau of the
American Red Cross. with the valua-
| BILE advice of Maj. Gen. William c.
| Gorgas. surgeon general of the United
States Army, who is chairman of the
war relief board of the American Red
Cross. They are:
| Dr. Harry b. Neagle, graduate of
Johns HOPKINS Medical School and of
! Harvard Technology School for Health
/ Officers; DR.. Stanley H. Osborn. grad
uate of Tufts Medical School and mem
ber of the Harvard Technology School
for Health officers: f. H. Magoon, b. S.,
graduate of Purdue University, In
LLAMA, in sanitary engineering and a
student of sanitary engineering and
sanitary science at the Massachusetts,
Institute of Technology for the last two
of the Massachusetts institute of
Technology. 1914. in sanitary en-
gineerlng and since then d student
OF sanitary problems in the san
itary research laboratory, Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology; Charles
E. Fox, $. b.. graduate of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology and
at present assistant sanitary engineer,
state board of health of Maryland; r.
$. Lyman. 3. A. graduate Of Yale Uni
versity. 1919, and since that time
student of chemistry, sanitary science.
etc. at Yale, Harvard and the Massa-
lchusetts Institute of Technology, J. r.
| Harrington, b. s.. graduate of the
University of Rochester and student
of public health subjects at the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology; Hen
ry +. Berger, jr., graduate of Clark
College, Worcester, Mass. and for the
last two years special student of pub
setts Institute of Technology; c. f.
Buck, Il. A.. graduate of Dartmouth
College. spending the past year at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Bates College, 1912, and since then
sanitary inspector with the Massachu-
setts state board of labor and indus
tries: G. W. Bakeman, S. B., graduate
in sanitary engineering of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology. 1913,
since which time has been in the serv-
vice Of the state board of health OF
Massachusetts; +. II. Gage. ;. b., grad
uate in sanitary engineering of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1913. since which time has been in the
service of the state board of health of
Massachusetts; Dr. II. II. Mitchell. Il. >,
/ graduate of Syracuse University, New
York. in science and medicine and a
member of the Harvard Technology
School for health officers; DR.. Albert
F. Cornelius, from Berea. Kentucky,
| member of the Harvard Technology
School for Health Officers.
4 DIR. Fleetwood Gruver of Nashville.
| Tenn. Clement b. Chin, Charles r
Crafts. George w. Taylor and T. ID.
| oil in, he if.r
department on the Isthmus of Panama
! George II. HaZlehurst, graduate of
Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute, 1910.
degree of NJ c. T., 1913. Harvard. large
| experience in sanitary engineering.
sewer work. garbage disposal, etc;
Theodore r. Schoonmaker. S. b., grad
uate of Harvard. 1912. has had expert
| ence in the filtration of water at Little
| Falls, n. j.. and been connected with
| the sewage disposal plant at Baltimore.
Md; DR.. r. w. Mendelson. Chicago, ILL.,:
DR. John S. Schmitt. B. A Of ST. Johns
College and an NJ. D. of Johns Hopkins
Hospital and acting assistant surgeon
in the United States public health sery-
| Ice; Otis T. Campbell of Panama. Fran
| cisco r. Bravo of Havana, Cuba, and
| Gerald F. Laughlin of Panama.
List of the Nurses.
| The nurses are: Miss C. Adelaide Mad
sen. Minneapolis Mimi. graduate of
the University Hospital, Minneapolis:
Miss Matilda NJ. Sturtzer. Buffalo, n.
| ", a graduate of the German Hospital,
Buffalo; Miss Caroline E. Bill. Buffalo,
n Y, a graduate of the Buffalo General
Hospital; Miss Alice ]. Philip. New
York city. graduate of the Utica Gen
eral Hospital: Miss Anna Baggerly
| Davis Utica, N. Y. graduate OF the
Hospital Of the Good Shepherd SYRIA
cuse. N. Y; Miss Clodia E. Johnson.
indianapolis. Ind, a graduate of Grant
County Hospital. Marion. Ind: Miss
| Mary NJ Bowen. Indianapolis Ind. a
graduate of st. Vincents Hospital. In
dianapolis; Miss Clifford Geffcken.
Savannah. Ca. a graduate Of the Pater-
son General Hospital, Paterson. N j.,
| and Miss W. Louise Kochert. Wheel
ing. w. Va. a graduate Of the City Hos
pital Training School for Nurses,
| WheelingA
Among the items in the consignment
| Of supplies for the American commits
sion are fifteen tons Of artesian well
apparatus, 500 Dutch ovens. ten auto
trucks. 1876 tons OF sulphur. 5000 gal
Ions of kerosene. fifty barrels of
phinotas oil. 100000 bichloride tablets.
a large quantity of alcohol. 500 gal
Ions of formaldehyde and numerous
cases of hospital garments and sup
plies.