THE BALKANS.
APPALLING CONDITIONS IN
SERBIA
FEARFUL RAVAGES OF DISEASE
LONDON, May 30. The Press Bureau issues a report on relief work in Serbia. In Marchat and Nish there are 37,000 6ick in the army, including 15,000 cases of fever, 8000 being typhus, also 8000 relapsing fever and 1500 enteric. The conditions are appalling. The patients outnumber the hospitals, and doctors and nurses are dying. ' At one time 700 were lying in 200 beds attended by two doctors. The arrangements were insanitary. There were no bathrooms, and typhoid came from sewerage discharging in an open ditch outside a ward. Rigid measures produced a gradual improvement. On April 18th typhus was reduced to 948 and enteric to 1126.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 31 May 1915, Page 5
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117THE BALKANS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 31 May 1915, Page 5
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