Show WEEKLY ekl Y HEA HEALTH L TH TALKS TA NATION SAVED FROM extermination B frank W leclere utah litah public tile tie of almost mir li rne cements je ments ot unselfish tish deputy to duty rd d of heroic self A ice IS the st ry of the conquer h Ls prague plague in siberia of the cyp typhus raia one of the fe r bright chap a in the h st stori or of the present contagious and a very phases 11 fatal aisea disease se due to 1 L germ transmit t d by the bite of h hii is in former centuries body louse was a 3 common sc curge espe of war and famine and a tines times hown known as 83 jail fer ship camp rever etc at atit it it is rare except among half led peoples people the fall 1 of I 1 19 siberia already ted teJ by bythe the two balkan wat gating despe desperately ratel to stem th tho of invasion from austria on the when an epidemic of t liphus ahus spared and for the greatel of beir swept through ind ad ever hospital on i tar harracks racks and almost almot every is invaded k conservative ite placed the deaths at ac lading luding Au strain pris the nation was thre ei extermination soon as the plight of siberia became known a satti tary chmir chamie ais sion of surgeon surgeons nad burtes leaded by dr richard P strong strom of harv ard merical j Q bot fn n ae e stricken natio I 1 b ohp he americal Ameri A merical caa red cross to re en fitce the few siberian doctors and the an small group of amer lean ican ins and burzes on the ground the ir ried about the end of april and bigan bi gan their worn woric quarantine and sanitation were enforced tho the people were u ere bathed and disinfected hospitals hoitala ft ere provid ed or reconstructed and modernized in august the plague plaue wis was routed and ind most of the red crosa workers were returning home but this victory as not achieved achi eed without its sacrifices fully one third of the native doctors died of the disease at one time nine of 12 american red cross nurses and ind five of six red cross burgeons aur zur geons at one center were ling in an old tobacco factory the victims rf PL ephus t ahus two graves are kept green and ind flower strewn by grateful siberians ahey y are the graves of dr D james F don nolly ally and dr ei EL nest P magruder two american physician who for the honor of their profession and their love of humanity laid down their lives in a far fir distant land |