DISEASE IN SERVIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16008, 28 August 1915, Page 8

DISEASE IN SERVIA.

—. S_' l FIGHT AGAINST TYPHUt, If ' - . : l|llll CONTINUED HELP NEEtIKSIf (FROM OUR own COr^ESPOSEffiSS.J^

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Loxdos. JsiyfJ. . I The value of the work which tie tish and other foreign doctors and nan* have done in Servia can hardly : be s<Rß>5<RB> j ' estimated, declares the special cciRSJ®" dent of the London Times, writing ; Salonika. In the whole coantiy at S* - ' outbreak of the war there were ■ i than 400 Servian doctors. The nwrtalHj ! among them has been so great tb*fc nc* - j there are believed to be only 250.»|®K j I thing could exceed the t j which these Servian doctors worked,- 4 ?^ .still work; but there are not Vj. them for the army alone, so x population has been almost entirely |g| out medical help or sanitary advite..,-lp* ! cepfe in a very few towns,* ii 'S cnScslt to say. that' there was anything to-wfck^' ! the term sanitation could be applied " v 5 when the epidemics of typhus »ki iypbffld broke out there was neither barrier aw, in the multitude, any thought iW * ® ar " rier was possible to their spread. . The Source of the SeoaJffc ' Typhus has now "been reduced sri» " comparatively trivial proportions ft** j almost begins to speak of it is the p BS j tense, though there will be to-iBV ; lands of deaths from it yetJ'^lf> ! the total number during the fs|l|§§; ] spring at- 200.000, we shall ' j well under the mark, continne* iflSi j respondent, " The chief, ' only, medium of communication « *11*7 is lice. The centres from which j demic started were the army" |j||S|gL • , Austrian prisoners, of whom it remembered that Servia took ing number of 70,000. t'tpm- jj prime sources the scourge spread j classes of the population." .. i Emergency Tided Oy»;|jjjg||| The correspondent says that for •' " ment there is need of no laore -, . • nurses or hospital units, unless specific purposes, in Servia. -J#* j tion may change at almost- ant • , ! Renewed fighting may . * ! quantities of newly-wounded cholera (or anything elseV<n»y 'jg# I I For the present, then, those jin Servia are but remaining, _ for an emergency. For a will be sore need of funds. ■ jg»3y ! ; Red Cross itself is in stasia _L ti* ;*| i money. Distress in many Pcjjj&fcpjSi country is great, though it 15 - .^ e 'pbinC" j ; = 1 determine i-ow bad it- is at , an * „ rCr5 „ ' even with expert investigating .. the spot. -.farttes 10 ' M Though, therefore, fi S utl ?£, $<> th* 4 f; ment stilled, and disease n o oae - nurses and hospitals are me, suppose that Servia 8 toachei' met- They have hardly ; | Oilv the immediate * nl *ent <?]* . tided over. There is stMja£* for all the generosity thai .y; public can shew. i,— -VS"'*