Show I SE DISEASES INCREASES SES I IN ALBANIA REPORT T uber 1 11 i TIRANA Albania March Ia c 25 Tuber 5 Tuber Tuberculosis malara and are are increasing Ini In- In i creasing alarmingly in Albania The Thee In-I In e i death rate Is mounting dally daily Whole towns and villages are affected There There I Is little lIttie me medicine to be had There Thare are only a I. I dozen doctors to minister r to several severa hundred thousand persons L The Italians and the members of at the I American Red fled Cross are assisting the local authorities in fighting the epi epi- demic S There re are n neither h hospitals ls' nor r nurses In Albania Those who practice I medicine are principally pharmacists and and- druggists with little or no medical medi medI- I cal training When the Mohammedan members of ot the community fall ill III little effect is made at treatment It Is the will of Allah says the fatalistic Moslem and then awaits the end Normally the Albanians are a healthy heal- heal thy hardy race but the country esp esp especially es- es p the coast towns and the val val- leys lays Is rank with malaria and infectious diseases The damp cold winter win win- ter poorly constructed houses and bad food have given tuberculosis a a. firm foothold throughout the country Disease Disease Disease Dis Dis- ease incident to o malnutrition filth neglect of at all this is the result of ot ten years of continuous war The A Albanians Albanians Alba Alba- Iba- Iba were poor In 1913 They have grown poorer with each passing year Long privation lack of nourishment medicine and care have brought them to a point of great misery and im Im- |