Show PORTABlE MACHINES CONSTRUCTED TO FIGHT TYPHUS NEW NEn E YORK TORIi May fay 21 Seventeen Seventeen huge portable disinfecting chambers on on wheels to combat comb t tho the ravages of the tho deadly typhus which h has ts seized ill all Serbia in its rasp grasp have been or ordered ordered ordered or- or dered by hy the Serbian government The They will bo be shipped from here on June 1 1 according to Dr Loon Leon on L L. j Walters of or this city elly who has divulged di divulged di- di t d the tho plans of construction atthe of at the ho machines machines his his Invention invention and and as- as that had hal been appropriated appropriated appropriated by the allied 1 nations for tor the purpose of oC manufacturing the the ap ap- in large tt quantities Tho Serbian Ser- Ser bian government he ho sold said had already pair for tor the first lot of ot machines ma- ma chines The committee of at the Rockefeller foundation said Bald Mr lir Ir Walters that was vaa sent o er to report upon conditions condl- condl lons in Serbia reported that on March 10 last there were Tere cases I of at t typhus More Ioro than physicians have ha lave fallen including our own awn Dr Magruder of ot the eme emergency enc hospital Va Washington and Dr Donnelly Donnell Don- Don nell nelly of ot this city Miss E E. and nd Miss Hiss St lair Clair Livingston ston American American Amer- Amer ican can nurses who are working there have hn lave ve reported conditions an as calling for tor or Imp imperative ratho menu res It Is said Raid that liat there h have vo been deaths from rom typhus there I T Typhus Is carried most physicians concede b by vermin To combat it It Itis it itIs Is necessary either to destroy all clothing and belongings of or those af afflicted nf- nf thorough h 1 or In their tion The first method is Impossible because of or the Impoverished Impo condition of the people The Tho second f. Is 13 all that l lent lert Dr t Walters described his apparatus ns as a a. disinfecting chamber n a vertical boiler boller a s water reservoir and a n. coal truck and box assembled upon a n mounted upon wheels It weighs hs pounds This will wl ill be drawn hj hy four tour f horses horses- The disinfecting box hex will ac- ac ac 1 I the clothing of or fifty persons persons per per- sons at a n. time III High h pressure steam from the I chamber I Is pumped Into the thc boiler holler and In thirty minutes the ie contents contents contents con con- tents are arc completely sterilized d Thy They They I ar are automatically dried and then re returned returned re- re at the tho th turned to the owners who same rome time will x have o been n thE themselves res washed and disinfected ten hours hour a da day each ench machine will wi account for tor 1000 men mn For tor article that would be ruined h by steam there for tor injectIng injecting inject inject- Is provided pro an apparatus ing formaldehyde gas ns Into Iota the chamber cham cham- ber her The bad had effects of or the gas upon In contact with I all who would come ll will Vom b be It after the box was opened I counteracted b by a coll coli containing ammonia ammonia am am- monia which will nt neutralize the formaldehyde for for- formaldehyde tor-I tor fumes |