Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-07-25 | Page 14 | But Little Remains of His Domain

BUT LITTLE REMAINS OF HIS DOMAIN Belgian Minister of Interior Finds His Compatriots Widely Scattered NOW BATTLING DISEASE Belgians Expect the Allies to to td I Advance Utmost Care Is Given War Babies r f PARIS July 2 Monsieur Paul Bor- Bor Bet i ryer finds a pathetic Inconsistency In for tor Au his title of at f minister later or ot the InterIor the tho stricken Belgian nation on whose o rule rul now covers a strip of territory about ten tort miles wide and thirty s out long or of an original total ot of square miles mUes The Tho InterIor ot Of B Bet Bet- l- l glum Is now a little of at ln c France Holland and England England ever the civilian BelgIans have found she shel ter after atter 8 Monsieur the Berryer has not only to look several million exiles in three countries but is 18 responsible for a a. acC cI ci- villan population Of ot persons crowded Belgium In What still tUI remains Intact of Belgium urn One of at the most difficult problems ha hari haa been prevention of tho the spread o or of disease Notwithstanding stout resistance resist resist- ance and innumerable subterfuges to avoid It the authorities have forced or of these civilians tO Submit tO vaccInation vaccination against typhoid Pollution of Water Such a systematic work rk has hns been done In this line that typhoid ha has hai practically practically ally been conquered and the wartime death raS rato to kept Pt down to the normal norial hali rate or of peacetime in spite of such handicaps i as ns the scarcity pf pt pure water er When the allies advance as ns every Belgian Belga expects them to do the will u water u i uv w 1 even ve more son son- ous Water lies only a yard below the tho surface In the lower part of at Flanders Flanders Flan Flan- ders and Is all polluted Th The Belgian and English sanitary departments working together have o prepared means of oC analyzing tho water so that tho the presence presence presence pres pres- ence of or poisonous matter may be In Instantly Instantly instantly In- In detected For the supply of ot the army as al well well r as for tor tho the civilian population it Is proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed to install largo large filters in boats which could follow tollow the canals and from which water tanks could take taka th lr supply and distribute it to the tion This formidable undertaking will require a a. vast organization and a considerable considerable considerable con con- outlay Caring for Cor War ur nr Monsieur D Berryer has rendered u L auzy au mo Ino greatest service to his country country coun coun- try In iii looking after the war babies Many of or them born In a manger duning durIng during dur dun ing tho the confusion of ot retreat are aro carefully carefully carefully care care- fully sought ot 0 and placed where tb thy they y may have hare every care Tho The little ones that have hae no controlling hand to keep keel them out of ot tho the streets are aro sent to tor the Belgian schools in France and those of or families tl along alonS' tho the battle front whore where a stray shell is likely to fall taH are no longer lon er nil allowed owed to take tate the risks of their elders