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Show HOLD DISEASE RESULT OF FATE SOFIA. Bulgaria, Sept. 16 (Correspondence (Cor-respondence of the Associated Press. ) i Disease in the Balkans s looked up-jon up-jon by the people as the result of a fate The peasantry has been educated educat-ed in superstitions rather than in the laws of sanitation They are opposed ,to the killing of mosquitoes, rats, flies and vermin, belleing that they arc a part of llle. Thr-y know nothing about jtho carriers of disease, The lmport-jance lmport-jance of protecting their food supplies j from winged Insects has not been Impressed Im-pressed upon them Little r no attempt at-tempt is made to drain mosquito pools or marshes so that the Balkan states I claim the distinction of having some Of the worst malarial sections on earth. The peasant has little faith in ined-Iral ined-Iral sun-in "How .,n a hug give us typhus?" they ask. ' Every living thing I harbors Insects. Why not man? If the good God sends us disease and misfor-itune, misfor-itune, we believe that he knows best.". In most districts In the Balkans the houses of the rural population are! small and poorly constructed Man) of them are built of mud and straw and have no provision for sanitation or, ventilation. The only air admitted to the homes is obtained through accidental acci-dental Imperfections in construction. I A few of the houses have two stories, I the lower floor being occupied by the horses and cattle, the upper by the family. In such houses as these families fam-ilies live crowded together und r the most unhygienic conditions I Years pass without a doctor entering the huts. Disease goes untreated- In (the country districts dentistry is virtually vir-tually unknown. Bath tuns aro rare in the Balkans even in the larger cities. The people-in people-in that part of Europe rarely wash. "You must be very unclean people in the United Stales." said a well-to-do! storekeeper of Sofia, to o,n American. "n you find it necessary to bathe every Aft |