A MEDICAL CRUSADER

Southland Times, Issue 17533, 9 June 1915, Page 3

A MEDICAL CRUSADER

“Major-General Gorgas. of the T'nitod States Army, has acccplc. 1 a pnsl nf IIH.ROo a year under Iho auspices of the Rockefeller Commission to stamp on! typhus in Sorvia. The Rockefeller (Commission will a, large ami competent staff, and pay all expenses,” says the Daily Telegraph. “The campaign is tinder the patronage of the American Red Cross. General Gorgas made a. record in Cuba, Panama, and South Africa in 15*13, where lie worked for the British Government in stamping out infectious disease, and operations in Sorvia will bo on similar lines.” Tliis decision is of the greatest importance, for so dire is the suffering from typhus in Sorvia that it has been feared that its spread to other countries might even affect the war. must be looked for ward to with grave “That the coming summer and autumn anxiety, so far, at any rate, as the Continent of Europe is concerned, cannot bo doubted,” says the medical correspondent of The Times. “Wo do not know what is in store for us. That tin* danger may spread to these shores is very possible; wo do .not know that by vigorous measures just now we can mitigate the character and limit the extent of that danger.”