FRIGHTFUL CONDITIONS IN SERVIA
HOSPITALS OVERCROWDED URGENT APPEAL BY A BRITISH OFFICER (Rcc. AUircli 19, 11.30 p.,,,.') London, March 19. Cnpluin Bennett, a Rod Cross Commissioner lo Servia, has issued an indent appeal for help. . We iieseribui L'&kub "the valley of the dead." There is horrible oviir-
rs and twelve orderlies, without nurses, I wounded. Half the doctors and orderlies down. The patients are dying of sepsis ive not been dressed. Scores of doctors for their prisoners, but of 750 in ono About sixty are dying daily, and there a straneer enters the silence of the camp i of God give ino water," or "For.God's
crowding at {lie hospitals. Six doctors had attempted to attend 1800 sick and have since died or have been stricken c (putrefaction) because their wounds hav and fever nurses are wanted. The Servians are doing their best i camp only twenty are ablo to stand, is nobody to remove the dead. When s is broken with moans—"For the love sake give me bread."
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2414, 20 March 1915, Page 7
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168FRIGHTFUL CONDITIONS IN SERVIA Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2414, 20 March 1915, Page 7
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