A MEDICAL CRUSADER.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13794, 15 June 1915, Page 7

A MEDICAL CRUSADER.

"MajoivGeneral Gorgas, of the United States Army, has accepted a post of £10,000 a year under the auspices of the Rockefeller Commission to stamp out typhus m Serbia. The Rockefeller Commission will engage a large and competent staff, and pay all expenses," says the "Daily Telegraph."

"The campaign is under the patronage of the American Red Croos. General Gorga:s made a record in Cuba, Panama, and South Africa in 1913, where he worked for the British Government iii: stamping, out infectious disease, and operations, in Serbia . will be on similar lilies."- ■-'.;. ,

This decision is of the greatest importance, for so dire is the suffering from typhus in Serbia that it has been feared that its spread to other countries might even affect the war.,.

"That the coming summer and autumn must be looked forward to with grave anxiety, so far, at any rate, as the Continent of Europe is concerned, cannot be doubted," says the medical correspondent of "The Times." "We do not know what is in store for us; That the danger may spread to theso shores is very possible; we do know t!»afc by vigorous measures just now we can miligaie the character and limit tho extort of the danger,"