PESTILENCE AND DEATH IN SERBIA
APPALLING CONDITIONS. (Rec. May 29, 6.15 p.m.) London, May 28. The Press Bureau issues a report oa the relief work in Serbia during March. At Nisch. it is stated, there were thirtyseven thousand sick in the army, including fifteen thousand cases of fever— eight thousand being typhus—and also eight thousand cases of relapsing fever, and fifteen hundred enteric 'cases. The conditions are appalling. The patients outnumbered the hospital accommodation. and doctors and nurses were dying. _ At one time seven hundred were lying in two hundred beds, attended by two doctors, in the midst of insanitary arrangements, no bathrooms, with typhoid sewerage discharging into an open ditch outside the ward. ' Rigid measures produced a gradual improvement, and by April 18 typhus had been reduced to 948 cases, and enteric to 1126.—("Times" and Sydney; "Sun" Services.) '
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2475, 31 May 1915, Page 6
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139PESTILENCE AND DEATH IN SERBIA Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2475, 31 May 1915, Page 6
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