Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-03-23
SERBIA SUFFERS
TERRIBLE PLAGUE
siR THOMAS LieTos DESCRIBES
APPALLING CONDITION tx
IsTtNo-
Says Burning % Houses and Clothing
is Only Means % Stopping
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Ae4aa42as aAEEA ~ JUST az II tQQA
Gre 20 stop the great plague In Lon
toa. 30 nrez arc needed % clear Ser
bia % typhus. Infected houses and
the clothing % people must be burned
as the disease is carried By vernin.
vhich q onnipFesent.- said Sir Thorn
az Upton Monday night IN a state
meut 90 the Associated Press. In
which he recounted the appalling con
ditions in Serbia. where he spent con-
siderable time IN personal inyestisa-
lions.
4 net on the country roads the sick.
too weak 20 travel TO a hospital. Bull
lock carts we're gathering them up.
Often a woman and children were
leading buIlocics. the husband and IA
Their IN the cart ravinK with fever
Scarcely enough people remain IN
stricken 20 dig graves for the dead.
which lie exposed IN the cemeteries
The situation - entirely beyond
the control % the present force which
imporatiyely needs all the help Il can
get. tents. hospitals. doctors. nurses.
modern appliances and clothing 10 re
place the garments full OF typhus bear
inE vsrmiu.-
Describing the hospital 40 Chew
shelf where occurred the death OF DR..
Jatuca uouuciiy % the American Red
Cross. whom SIR Thomas calls one Of
the greatest heroes OF the var. he
said:
The place e. a village IN a barren.
uncuiuvatcd country. the hospital for
merry q tobacco factory. In - we're
crowded 1900 persons. without bian-
Erts or mattresses OF even straw
men lying in the clothes In which they
had lived iu the trenches for months.
svartaiuE vith sormir- All discascs-,
ty-phus. typhoid. dvaentrry and small
pox were hrrrird together. On such a
state Or n1unciiy found ffc hospital
vhera be- had force % elk American
doctors with twelve uursea and three
Serbian daeto-s
rWher Z visited tf~ hospital three
American doctors and three Serbian
doctors aad uir~ nursss ueFr ttca-
selves SICK
-rhe paur-ts urrr waited ON by
Austrian prisoners. Tao fuwrr g
rrrEiaE ae1a1s ast fever were lr
tr-arab'- TIE ratfea's objected fr tfr
shadows briaE opruTi and ur. Don
arUy YES forced t1 break tt~ paasH.
water Found infsetss.
ire a-s, thirz ur pounsiiy ala on
his arrival uas tu fret che water
ua.eh be- gosrd affected. ir tlra iu.
provisrd boilers % Oh drums. ir Hai.H
10 bou The uatrs fuF use. The boiler
saved 900 lives ssad DR., pouueiiy He
also buiir 0vcaa On WEich 90 bake tE~
eioshiuE % che patients bat be vas u0f
provided with proper stsri.zlas a..
p4rGfus.
No Drawer people exist thar she
scrbianss they have uev-s q word ~
complaint 10 one WaFd / sav n fever
pagiout. his mGFuitceut voice boou3ils
soars 20 cheer bis comrafcs- some
Nrrs tu tsiirtuu1. calling for moth
err
-onr source % infection is the army
black bread. which 10 the only ration
~ che troops The patients IN the
hospitals daily receive a Loaf which
hey pat iu their bed o. under their
pntsv. Later the unused loavcs are
bought BY p-ddiors and are resoid.
spreading disease among the people.
who ars medieval a. far a. sanitation .
Ia Concerned. A Serbian soldier % .
gwen q EAN1s AAAa4 NAta@@H1 anu FHA- /.
iaps part % a uniform. but otherwise
ooks after himself His rations are
-uarsc bread
The street cleaning and hospital
waiting are done BY Austrians. who
IRE rapidly thinning from typhus and
lthsr diseases The best hospital In
no Balkans o. az Belgrade under DIR.
Edward ". Ryan % the American con
inEenf. where there are 1890 patients
Dr.. Ryan kept the hospital neutral
iurinE the Austrian occupation and
wondcrs automatically
J: that time. Hs f. worshipped By the
'eopie.
.'Dr. RYAN says that the greatest Ia
or is keeping the hospital free from
..r--ir- The typhus &ffscts men the
most severely. Women come next and
hiidrcn for the most part recover.
ne disease lasts nftecn days. with
-vcr and dciirium."
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