OCR Text |
Show TYPHUS TAKING TER1LE TOLL SICK SOLDIERS ARE TOPPLING OVER LIKE NINEPINS IN EASTERN TURKEY. Sanitary Conditions are Unspeakable, Hospitals are Overflowing with Patients, All Classes Being Victims of Disease. Now York. Sanltnry conditions In eastern Turkey aro unspeakable, according ac-cording to roportB from cities there, whero tho American board of foreign missions has hospitals, mado public hero Friday, Typhus and Typhoid fever aro raging, rag-ing, physlclas,, missionaries, nurses and other Americans havo caught tho contagion, hospitals uro overflowing, overflow-ing, all Bohools In at least one district havo been closed, nnd sick soldlors "aro toppling over like ninepins," It Is said. At Erzorum, whero missions wero established for tho uso of flick and wounded soldlors, tho Rev. R. S. Stapleton and his wlfo, who If a physician, phy-sician, wero taken with typhus, as well as their two children. Dr. E. P. Casey, In charge of tho American hospital hos-pital thero, and his wlfo, wero lator stricken with tho disease. Two Gorman Gor-man womnn nurses, tho druggist, tho hqad TurkiBh doctor and nurses, all wero attacked In turn. There was no mention of fatalities, except among the soldiers, In tho reports. "Sick soldiers aro lying In tho street In tho mud," reads tho report of conditions at Mczeroh. "In tho military hospital thoy dlo at tho rata of fifteen a day. In tho American board's hospital thoy aro toppling over like nluoplns." |