| Show TYPHUS TAKING TERRIBLE TOLL anil SICK SOLDIERS ARE TOPPLING OVER LIKE NINEPINS NINEPIN S IN EASTERN TURKEY sanitary conditions are unspeakable hospitals are overflowing with patients all classes being victims of disease new york sanitary conditions in eastern turkey are unspeakable according to reports from cities there where the american board of 0 foreign missions has hospitals made public here friday typhus and typhoid fever arevag are raging physicians missionaries nurses and other americans have caught the cont contagion aglon hospitals are overflowing all schools in at least one district have been closed and sick soldiers are toppling over likel like it la 14 said at Erz erum where missions were established for the use of sick pick and wounded soldiers the rev R 8 stapleton and his wife who Is a physician were taken with typhus as well as their two children dr E P casey in charge of the american hospital there and his wife were later stricken with the disease two german woman nurses the druggist the head turkish doctor and nurses all were i tacked in turn there was no me mention of fatalities except among the soldiers in the reports sick soldiers are lying in the street in the mud reads the r report e port of conditions at Me in ther the military hospital they die at the rate of fifteen a day in the american boards hospital they are toppling over like ninepins |
