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Show TURK SANITATION IS UNSPEAKABLE New York. April 9 Sanitary condi tlons In eastern Turkey are unspeakable." unspeak-able." according to reports from cities cit-ies there where the American board of foreign missions has hospitals, made public today Typhus and typhoid ty-phoid fever are raging, physicians, missionaries, nurses and other Americans Ameri-cans have caught the contagion hospitals hos-pitals are overflowing, all schools In at least one district have been closed and sick soldiers "are toppling over like nine pins, " it Is said At Erzernm where missions were established for the UKe of sick and wounded soldiers, the Rev R. S. Sta-phton Sta-phton and his wife, who Is a physician, physi-cian, were taken with typhus as well as their two children. Dr E. P. Case in charge of the merican hospital hos-pital there and his wife were later suricken with the disease. Two German Ger-man women nurses, the druggist, the head Turkish do tor and nurses all were attacked in turn. There was no mention of fatalitifs. except among the soldiers, in the reports "Sick soldiers are Liny in the street In the mud." read th" report of conditions con-ditions at Mezpreh. "In the military hospital they die at the rate of fifteen a day In the American board's hospital hos-pital they are toppling over like nine pins'' |