STRICKEN SERVIA.
APPALLING CONDITIONS. LONDON.. May 30 The Press Bureau has issued a' report dealing with relief work in Servia. In March, at Nish there were 37,000 sick in the Army, including 15,000 cases of ! lever, 8000 being typhus, and also 8000 i relapsing fever and 1500 cases of .enteric. ' ■ \ The conditions were appalling. The patients outnumbered the' hospitals' beds, and doctors and nurses were dying. At one time 700 were lying^ on 200 feeds attended by two doctors under insanitary arrangements. There- were no bathrooms, and the typhoid ~ sewerage was discharging into an open ditch outside the ward. Rigid measures ' produced a gradual improvement and by A-pril' 18 the typhus had . been l'educed to 948 cases, while the enteric, cases numbered x!26. . / •
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13698, 31 May 1915, Page 3
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