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Douglas Daily International
Douglas, Cochise County, Arizona
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Typhus epidemic in Rumania, claiming tens of thousands of lives over 2.5 years, is waning per American Red Cross, but smallpox and cholera threaten amid famine and war devastation in Balkans. Red Cross aids with food and medical supplies.
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STILL SMOLDERING
IN RUMANIAN AREA
(A. P. Correspondence)
BUCHAREST, April 10.--The typhus
epidemic which has claimed tens
of thousands of lives in Rumania in
the last two and a half years is still
smouldering, but American Red Cross
physicians who are watching the
sporadic outbreaks believe that the
disease has "burned itself out." Their
greatest worries now are the danger-
ous outbreaks of smallpox and isolat-
ed cases of cholera.
The Near East today, according to
American, British and French physi-
cians, who have completed their sur-
veys, is ripe for an outbreak of cholera
and the plague. Under nourishment,
famine and the strain of war upon
the civilian and military populations
has undermined the health of the na-
tions of the Balkans.
The past winter was a terrible one.
Refugees are returning to their homes
to find them heaps of ruins. They
are without everything. If it were not
for the American food mission and
the shiploads of food being brought
into Rumania and under the auspices
of the American Red Cross, Rumania
today would be a nation of starving
people.
Local Rumanian physicians are
fighting hard in co-operation with
American doctors to confine the small-
pox and cholera cases to certain dis-
tricts. In one hospital American doc-
tors found nine children dead from
smallpox. The nurses working day
and night to attend to the living cases
had no time to remove the dead chil-
dren from their beds.
The Red Cross is fighting the small-
pox epidemic particularly in the Do-
brudja region. Medical supplies and
units one doctor and two nurses are
sent by a special Red Cross food boat
which plies up and down the Danube
to the river towns whence they travel
inland to the centers where the dis-
ease is making the greatest inroads.
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Rumania
Event Date
April 10
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typhus epidemic has claimed tens of thousands of lives in rumania in the last two and a half years; disease believed to have burned itself out; dangerous outbreaks of smallpox and isolated cases of cholera reported; nine children dead from smallpox in one hospital.
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The typhus epidemic in Rumania is still smoldering but believed to have burned itself out, according to American Red Cross physicians. Concerns now focus on smallpox outbreaks and cholera cases. The Near East is ripe for cholera and plague due to undernourishment, famine, and war strain on Balkan populations. Refugees return to ruined homes without essentials; American food mission and Red Cross prevent starvation. Local and American doctors fight to contain smallpox and cholera, particularly in Dobrudja region, with medical supplies sent via Danube boat.