Servia.
SICKNESS IN THE ARMY.
Times and Sydney Snv Service, London, May 28
The Press Bureau issues a report on relief work in Serbia. In Marchat and Nish there are 37,000 sick in the army, including 15,000 cases of fever, 8000 being typhus, also 8000 relapsing fever and 1500 enteric. The conditions are appalling. The patients outnumber the hospitals, and doctors and nurses are dying. At one time "00 were lying in 200 beds attended by two doctors. The arrangements were insanitary. There were no bathrooms, and typhoid came from sewerage discharging in an open ditch outside a ward. Rigid measures produced a gradual improvement. On April 18th typhus was reduced to 948 and enteric to 1126.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 26, 31 May 1915, Page 5
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117Servia. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 26, 31 May 1915, Page 5
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