Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-07-18
AMERICANS Do
NONDERSAGAINST
SERBIAN PLAGUE
Whole Nation Is Being Washed
and SteriIized, Says Sill
Thomas Upton ON His Re-
turn to London,


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e,nraculous is the only proper au1ect-
i've 90 apply to the work being done
~ American doctors and nurses il
serbia said Sir Thomas Upton to-
day. following his return from his
second trip to the near east with the
hospital yacht Erin.
"As usual" continued Sir Thomas
otb, Americans excel i'm organization
and preventive measures. The French
and English units are doing good
work In the hospitals. but credit for
fine ulIk If sanitation which is rap
Am making disease "a thing of the
mast must 20 to the Americans whose
magnificent efforts have made them
loved by every Serbian from the king
to the lowest peasant, all of whom
seem 10 fully appreciate the efforts of
the Red Cross i'm their behalf.
sanitation Works Wonders.
"When I was i'm Serbia ON my first
trim. continued Sir Thomas, 1T was
unsafe TO travel in the country, which
was then so badly infected from YER
min as 70 make necessary the use of
antiseptics night and morning. But
on this trip ne such precautions were
necessary. thanks to the sanitation re-
forms enforced by the Americans
The hospitals are now as clean as any
TO he found in Europe while hotels
and dwellings are beginning To OBJ
serve sanitary regulations.
"At the height Of the epidemic
there we're probably 100000 cases of
phus. but many typhus hospitals
nov have lcen closed for lack of pa
ients. AT Ghevghel, where DR..
James r. Donnelly now Serhia's hero,
died, there were once 400 patients
in tho American hospital Now there
are only three that are suffering
from typhus.
Washing the Nation.
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 i'm 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 n car where they were
thoroughly sterilized Then the own
er proceeded to the bath car where
an attendant placed him under high
pressure water pipes When he was
completely scrubbed the next step
was am inspection by an American
doctor after which the bather re-
eeyed sterilized clothing
Enforced on Turks.
Members of the Turkish popula-
ton which is large i'm this part of Ser
ba protested vigorously against dis
robing for the bath on the ground
that such procedure violated their
religious principles. but without avail
for the American sanitary commission
has complete power to enforce its
regulations. After the army of men
had been treated during the day, the
women and children were given baths
during the night
The next day 1 saw "a whole regl-
ment inoculated against cholera with
a speed and efficiency almost incredl-
Bile to any one who does not under
stand American methods Cholera
may come again but ii is no longer
feared
In brief it can be said that Amer
lean methods of prevention and cure
have saved Serbia from what threat
ened at one time to be the worst Sc
ries Of epidemics ever suffered p} a
modern nation
Best of Hospitals.
DR.. Edward w. Ryan has 5000 pa
TENTS mostly wounded, at Belgrade
in hospital pronounced by experts to
De of the best. Dr. Ryan has not FUZZY
recovered from his illness with typhus
but manages to direct the big hospital
The whole task is in charge Of Or
Richard +. Strong, of Harvard to
whom the lions share of credit tol
the direction of the great work mus
be given. This is due as much to ms
magnetic personality as to his Skull
While DR. Strong was in Salonik the
Grecian queen sent for him to SET
the king"
Sir Thomas brought back with nm
en- the Erin several American doctors
and nurses convalescent from typhus
While attempting to enter the
straits Of Sessina during the night inc
Erin was fired on, one shell striking
near the yacht, which, unable to an
Choir in the deep water cruised abou
until morning when the commandan
came on board and apologized lie eX
planned that the gunners did not rec
ognize the Erin as hospital snip
Sir Thomas came home ~, Dut y
improving When he is able to lfaVe
he expects to go to America to reeu