New Britain herald., 1915-07-30
GA| FREE SERBIA
 OF TYPHUS FEVER
$20,OO0 Is Required and America
 Cables the Money

diseases in the Harvard university medical school and chief surgeon of l the International Health Board nt 1 l Nish,S Serbia, had cabled that if he
 had s2O, ,000 additional at his com mand he could finally free Serbia en- l tirely of typnus and other epidemic 1
 diseases and put the country on a l thoroughly sanitary basis. The mon ! ey was promptly transmitted to Dr. ] Strong. 10000 being donated by the. Rockefeller foundation and 10000 l by the Red Cross. It was stated at the offices of the a i Red Cross that the work of the sani- I tary commission sent to Serbia under pr. Strong had been a great success. Z l Dr.. Strong and his assistants arrived !, in Serbia three months ago.. The country was destitute, and the typhns
 cases ran into the tens of thousands. Cholera seemed imminent and typhoid fever, smallpox and other diseases were epidemic. Now, it is declared, Serbia as result of the thorough
 work of the commission, is the clean
 est and healthiest country in the Ball.
 kans. The commission has placed
 Montenegro in an almost equally good
 condition 4
 The Red Cross gave out the first
 installment of Dr. Strong's diary.
 This, written at odd moments, begins
 with an account of the inspection by
 pr. Strong of the town hospitals and
 barracks of the little city. of Metrav-
 itza. After. that, one Of the first
 places visited was Pech, in Montene-
 gro. There, Dr. Strong says. he was
 unable to find a place to wash even
 his hands safely, so frightefully un-
 sanitary were tht conditions There were no disinfectants, no place to bathe the hundreds of typhus patients no clean clothes. no clean bedding
 At S:30 a. m., (this is late in May,)" Dr. Strong says in his diary. T met the Prefect, who is a first cousin of the king, and the conn n1anding general at Pech, and had a l long interview with them. have ar ranged to disinfect the hospitals, the | patinets and their clothes. We shall | place in tents the troops that are now | III barracks while we are disinfecting | their quarters, clothes, and bedding. | have supplies, clean clothing for all. I and have quarantined Pech, I am sending pr. Grinne1l and MT. de Id f Pena to take charge at Pech and wit, them will go a large quantity of dis- infectants, bathtubs. etc.
 Night Spent in the Open.
 After quick lunch at Pech at l p. n1.. we left by carriage and arr rived at Decani two hours later. x il found here several thousand soIdiefs .asaarteFed Tn asfii dnSSfgry, with a. Sen Dian priest caring 4for4 them the best he could. promised him disinfect- ants and expert assistance. Cases of typhus were developing among the men who had come from Pech. After m hour and a half here studying conditions and giving advice, we con- tinued travelling in our carriage until 8 o'clock at night. It was then quite dark, and MT. Brink and I decided to camp and spend the night in the open, sending the guards and the in- terpreter on to town, an hours travel distant.
 1T forgot to mention that had an escort-of six gendarmes with me, be- cause we were passing through ter ritory which is on the Albanian bor- der, and the Albanianss are very ura- friendly to the Montenegrins. The gendarme in command begged me not to camp in the open. saying 1t was very dagerous to do so. However. as I had not slept for twenty-eight hours I did not feel like going on at that hour of the night and spending 1t nt an infected hotel. A campfire was started and MT. Brink made some cof- fee and fried some bacon. This we ate, together with tin of salmon and some biscuits.
 Our meal ,had hardly been fin- ished before a curious incident hap pened A man, screaming with all his lung power. came running into our vicinity, chased by an Albanian with rifle iia his hands. This man
 claimed, as We found out later. that
 the Albanian was trying to kill him.
 It seems the Albanian had seen our
 camp fire and had crossed the Dor
 der to find out what 1t meant We
 gave him something to eat, and he at
 once become very friendly. By signs
 he irtimated to us that we should
 put the camp fire out and lie down | and go to sleep. Tn fact, he several | times tried to put the fire out himself l and kept pointing to the Albanian
 frontier, every once in while rais-
 ing his rifle to his shoulder as 1t |
 about to fire, indicating, we presumed
 thatawe were in danger.
 As the rain was now pouring 1 down we decided to go to bed. We |
 had no tents with us, but had the | canvas covers for our hammccks. We | spread our bedding on the ground and l then climbed under. the canvas. The i rain fell heavily all night. I was wet through and found next morning that my pocketbook had been so bad- 1ys soaked that my passport, which l it contained, was damaged, and the | pigment of the red seal had smeared l on the paper. We heard some | shooting in the night, but no shots i were exchanged