Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-04-12 | Page 2 | Serbia Suffers High Mortality

SERBIA SUFFERS HIGH MORTALITY Returning Red Cross Physician Says Conditions Are In Indescribable In- In describable S SNow Now ow York April 11 or Of Of the contingent contingent contingent con con- of oC six phY physicians and twelve nurses sent to Serbia b by the American Red fled Cross society sInce tho European war nr ar began all but four have contracted typhus the tho ease thc they were combatIng combating combat- combat In Ing according to Dr M. M P. P Iane Lane of ot New Orleans a Red Cross physician who arrived ed hero here today on tho the steamship Finland from Mediterranean ports Dr Dr- Lana Lano was waa accompanied by two Red Cross nurses ordered home b by Dr Ernest Irnest p P. P Magruder head of or the tho Serbian contingent who has since died to rp- rp after otter they had hall become victims of oC tho the scourge It Is Impossible to convey In words tho the condition b br of Serbia said Dr Dr- Lane Lano When we arrived we found the country In tho thio grip of oc an epidemic of oC recurrent fever ever with R R. hl high h percentage of f fatal tatal- It Uy Following tho the recurrent fever came tho scourge e of or typhus brought brough Into Serbia evidently b by Austrian pris- pris 0 fl em Deaths were so o numerous It wa was hard to find means to dispose of ot the bodies cremation being the tho only solution solution tion of ot tho the problem In one ono da day during tho second week in February there were deaths reported from om typhus In tho the city of ot Nish alone Over tho the entire country It Is safe to sn say that not leathan less lea than two out of ever evor every hundred people Including Serbians and prisoners o of oC war have havo died and tho the death rate 1 Is rapidly Increasing It It will require strenuous efforts to meet the contingency ency and successfully combat It Surgeons arc aro not neel needed ed d as badly as arc are trained nurses who are arc willing to work vork Sterilizing apparatus and disinfectants are o Imperative Tho The Rev Hc N. N D. D McClanahan of or Omaha a a. missionary of oC tho United Presbyterian church located at Cairo Egypt also alao was wasa a passenger on tho the Finland accompanied accompanied panted by his wife wHo and daughter The They have havo been In Egypt sl six years ears