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Show DEATH SWEEPS OVER WAR ZONE New York, April 16. Typhus, typhoid ty-phoid and rec urrent fever are epidomio in Sorbin, smallpox and scarlet fever also are present in some communities and cholera is expected with the warm er weather of spring, according to a report made public here today by the Rockefeller foundation war relief commission com-mission which has been Investigating conditions In that .stricken country The Serbian government, the report saysi is absorbed In the conduct of war. and civil employees are mo much occupied with the demands Of military service to turn their attention to gath erlnc statistics, but estimates based on insdequae Information place the number of tvphnp cases In the country at from 26,000 10 30,000. The commission's observers found the three epidemic diseases distributed throughout the country In all om-munitles om-munitles and in all the larger hospitals. hos-pitals. 'In Xisb," the report state?, "an I English physician said it was his belief be-lief that a hundred patients were dy Inp of typhua dall; "One day during the isit of the ! commission it wa6 reported that the cemetery- at Nish contained 2"o un buried bodleB of typhus victims, the force of grave digcers beine entirely unable to keep up with the work "In Belgrade In one hospital were 165 cases of typhus with a larger ag. grcjratc number in several other BOS pltals ' In Skopje, Dr Barrio, an English physician, estimated the number of typhus cases on February 24 at 2000 "Valjevo, a town in that part of Serbia which was for a time held by the Austrian army. Is reported to be the most serious center of the eplde mlc of typhUB Substantially the entire civilian population there are Involved In the disease. Without medical care with no dl rectlon or resources for setting on foot sanitary forces the remote and I helpless population is beinc decimated, i while the epidemii spreads in rapidly widening circle? Every communis on the main lines of trwel is in the clutches of typhus "Into the mountain places and the illages distant from the railroads, the disease is being carried b the moving troops and bullocll drivers and by the strawlined carts in which the sick and well are transported, and it Is said to be prevalent in most of them already." |