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Show PLUMBERS NEEDED II THE BALKANS Regeneracy of Turkey Is Opened With a General Sanitary Campaign. American Railroad Men Also Are Sorely Needed, According to Expert. By International News Service. CONSTANT! NOri.i:, July 26. Constantinople Con-stantinople is be ins cleaned up by the allies, and soon it will be like a western European oity. The regeneration of Turkey Tur-key is commencing with a pen era I sanitary sani-tary campaign, in which the American Red Cross commission to the Balkans has , been asked to aid. "American sanitary engineers are badly bad-ly needed out here," declared an American Ameri-can doctor. "Svwage systems must, be installed throughout tuc near east in hundreds hun-dreds of towns. Mosquito netting by the millions of bales must be brought over, i Local doctors do not believe in tho j screening of sick beds or of hospital v in-i in-i dows. They must go to school again in ' their profession. The people must be driven out of the filthy centers of dls- ease into the open country, where the sun can get at them and where they can engage in healthy farm work. Baths Badly Needed. "Sometimes," said the doctor, 'I feel an irresistible desire u gather ten thousand thou-sand of these unfortunate wretches together, to-gether, st rip them of their crazy -quilt bundles of sweaty, vermin-infested rags, force them all into a vast petroleum pool, then into a great tank of clean water. "I would then give them one and all h. pair of American shoes, a pair of overalls over-alls and a sweater. Upon the women T I would force gingham gowns and weekly I medical inspection by competent nurses. "American railroad men are sorely ! needed here. Near east railroads are ! jokes. They run on no schedule. They take from twenty to forty hours to go a hundred miles. "From one end of Serbia to the other the bridges are wrecked. They are being be-ing repaired in the near east manner, as if time ma ttered nothing and one rail spiked down constituted a good day's work. Roads Impassable. "The roads over which we are t rying to get our automobiles filled with Ued , Cross supplies for the underfed of ecu- j tral Serbia are quite impassable. From Saloniki to Belgrade the roads are lined with tens of thousands of skeletons and rotting carcases of animals. "Soldiers' graves thinly screened with earth skirt the highways. No wonder ! there are dozens of cases of typhus in every city in Serbia. "What the near east tieeds is several divisions of American plumbers, railroad men, sanitary engineers, doctors, nurses, white wings, building cont factors, drug- gists and prescription clerks, farming urn- ! chine salesmen, experienced cootie mlH-operalors, mlH-operalors, army bakers, and ,cp:t ,and pants salesmen with east side experience. The first boatload to leavo Toulon or New York should contain the plumbers," declared tho doctor with emphasis. |
