Sarvia
DEVASTATED BY TYPHUS. AN APPALING CONDITIO);. SITUATION BEYOND CONTROL. received March 24, 11.30 p.m. London, March 21. Sir Thomas Lipton, who lias retr.v:i"i! from a visit to f-'ervia, said: "A fire uiir be needed, to clear Servia of typiui.s. The houses and clothing must be burned .Scarcely enough people remain to -lip the graves of the dead, whoso bodies wfe lying exposed in the 'cemeteries. The situation lias pot beyond control. One source of infection is the black bread, the only ration supplied to the. hospitals The patients place the bread beneath their pillows and pedlars buy the unused loaves and sell them to the people, thus spreading the disease."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 245, 25 March 1915, Page 5
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