Dr. Farrer, the representative from the English Committee of the International Medical Relief Society and approved representative for Fridtjof Nansen, handing out bread to hungry children. He died on December 28, 1921 from spotted fever which he had caught in Russia. One of the pictures from Russia in November and December 1921. On assignment from the International Red Cross, Fridtjof Nansen visited the regions that were the hardest hit by famine.