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Show I TYPHUS IN THE UNITED STATES with the coming of Immigrants from the typhus Infected areas of Europe, the fever has broken out In parts ol New York state, and imiue i diatel) congress has appropriated j $200,0oi to fight the peril. Purine the great conflict in Europe, the Serbs, Bulgarians and Russians sulfered severely of typhus Hiimlr.il-of Hiimlr.il-of thousands Ol Victims were reported to have been claimed b lhe disease. American doctors and nurses were sent to Serbia lo help fight the disease and the tirsl method of attack was to remove the vermin from (he people which transmitted the deadly germi a number of Americans wen sacrificed in this work, but the workers saved the afflicted from threatened dei Ims tlon. t To allow ibis disease to ,-pnad in in. rimed stales would be serious, mistake This fact evidently is recognized rec-ognized by congress and means are to j bs sfuployed to stamp out the dlseasi |