Show SERBIA IN NEED OF MEDICINES MEDICINES' NiSH Serbia Oct 21 21 Sanitation and preventive medicine arc are the greatest greatest greatest great great- est needs of Serbia toda today With the approach of cold weather the thc country country coun oun try will be called leaned upon to combat her herold herold herold old enemy typhus American and foreign foreign for for- Ol eign relief organizations will ai aid the Serbian Herblan in this work Human conservation is one of or Serbia's Serbia's Ser Ser- bias bia's great pre problems War and and dis disease disease disease dis- dis ease have sadly depleted the tion Before the war the birth rate ate of ot Serbia was higher than her death rate In spite of the Inroads of epidemics epidemics epi epi- her population lon was Increasing at the rate of a a. year Now it is decreasing Bereft of her manpower and with her women and children or organically organically organically or- or wasted the question queston of population population population pop pop- to till the soil and build up the country Is a most serious one Another pressing problem facing the country is the immense immense- number of or orphans or- or In old Serbia there are Hrc 60 00 full tulI orphans and or half Only of these are cared I for in orphanages supported by the government or foreign relief agencies The rest are placed in private homes I where they are not always welcome welcom guests on account of of the scarcity of I food and the other necessaries of life Ute I |