Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-25

in Serbia, where he spent consider able time in personal investigations.
 q met on the country roads the sick, too weak to crawl to hospital; bullock carts were gathering them up. Often a woman and children were leading bullocks, the husband and father in the cart raving with fever. Scarcely enough people remain un- stricken to dig graves for the dead, which lie exposed in the cemeteries.
 '"The situation is entirely beyond the control of the present force, which i'm peratively needs all the help it can get, tents. hospitals, doctors. nurses, modern appliances and clothing to re- place the garments full of typhus-bear ing verInin."
 Describing the hospital at Ghevsheli, where occurred the death of Dr. James F. Donnelly of the American Red the greatest heroes of the war. he said:
 "The place Is a village in a barren, uncultivated country, the hospital an old tobacco factory. formerly belong ing to Abdul Hamid. In it were crowd ed fourteen hundred persons, without blankets or mattresses, or even straw men lying in the clothes in which they had lived in the trenches for months, swarming with vermin.,A1l diseases-typhus, typhoid, dysentery and smallpoX-were herded together. In such a state Dr. Donnelly found the hospital where he had a force of six American doctors. twelve American nurses and three Serbian doctors. When I visited the hospital three | American doctors, the three Serbian doctors and nine of the nurses were l themselves sick.
 The patients were waited on by | Austrian prisoners. The fumes of the reeEing wounds and fever were un- bearable. The patients objected to the I ind hni Dr nelly was forced to break the panets. The first thing Dr. Donnelly did on | his arrival was to test the water, which he found infected. He then i'm provised boilers of oil drums, in which to boil water for use. The boilers saved five hundred lives said Dr. Donnelly. He also built ovens in which | to bake the clothes of the patients
 but he was not provided with proper Steri1izing apparatus.
 | "No braVer people exist than the | Serbfans; they have never a word ot | complaint. In one ward I saw a fever patient, his magnificent voice boom | ing songs to cheer his comrades. Some were in a deliriun1, calling for mother. | "One source of infection is the army
 blackbread, which is the only ration
 of the troops. The patients in the hos pital receive daily a loaf, which they put in their bed or under the pillow | Later the unused loaveS are bought by l pGulGES dIlu dT0 TSSO1O, SpIGddluS
 ease among the people, who are medi-
 aeval as far as sanitation Is con-
 cerned. A Serbian soldier is given 2
 gun, but otherwise looks after him. self; his rations are coarse bread.
 "The street cleaning and hospita l waiting are done by Austrians, whC
 are rapidly thinning from typhus anG | other diseases. The best hospital il the Balkans is at Belgrade. under tn, Dr. Edward Ryan of the American lo
 tients. Dr. Ryan kept the hospita neutral during the Austrian occupa tion and accomplished wonders diplo matically at that time. He is wor | shipped by the people.
 "Dr. Ryan says that the greates labor is keeping the hospital free iron vermin. The typhus affects men thu most severely. Women come next, anC children for the most part recover
 The symptoms in the present epidemi,
 begin like those of grip. The diseas' lasts fifteen days, with fever and de lirium.'