Show typhus TAKING TO I 1 L SICK SOLDIERS ARE TOPPLING OVER LIKE NINEPINS IN EASTERN TURKEY sanitary conditions are unspeakable hospitals are overflowing with patients all classes being victims of disease new mew york sanitary conditions in eastern turkey are unspeakable according to 10 reports from cities there where the american board of foreign missions has hospitals made public here friday typhus and typhoid fever are aag i aging physicians missionaries nurses and other americans have caught the contagion hospitals are overflowing all schools in at least one district have been closed and sick soldiers sold lera lers are toppling over like ninepins it is said at Erz crum erum where missions were established for the use of sick and wounded soldiers the rev R S stapleton Staple tou and ills his wife who is a physician were taken with typhus as well as their two children dr E P casey in charge of the american hospital there and ills his wife were later stricken with the disease two german woman guises the druggist the head turkish doctor and nurses all were attacked in turn there was no mention of fatalities except among the soldiers in the reports sick soldiers are lying in the street in the mud reads the report of conditions at Nieze le reli in the military hospital they die at the rate of DI fifteen a day in the american boards hospital they are toppling over dver like ninepins |