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MANY LIVES
In their usual order. War, Famine
and Pestilence have come to many un
fortunate countries. There has been
incredible destruction of life and pro
perty. Klvers have been poisoned
with blood. There were forty miles
of rotting eorpes along the Marne—
and pigs fed upon them. But the peo
ple without fuel cannot boil water'
Hunger overcame scruples about the
swine. These thing:;, shallow graven
and exposure, have openej the door
for tlie waiting forces of disease. The
hospitals of France ore now beseiged
by civilians in numbers equaling, or
superseding the soldiers. This pro
blem was dltlicult enough before. No
country could have been prepared to
cope with the great hordes of wounded
men- tlie hundreds of thousands that
have fallen since the beginning of the
War. In tlie military hospitals sup
plies are verj limited. In many instan
ces men lie on pallets of straw, i:i
sheds or public buildings.
.sow Uie situation is uuuul> serious
ipuus eases sjiuuiu nut ue piaccu in
proximity to nuuiiaeu soiuieis. uai
tile scuuigc ol level' spi'euus uuio. n
is Ullucuil lo leluse uunntlallee Lo
inose v\ uu aie suuel'ing ii'uni any
cause.
His iuliowing are exeeipls Hum let
ters recciveu ai ine .Vineilean iienet
c.ieuiing House, which organisation
ulsmouies aiu Hum .auioiicu lo i lance
anu ner allies, aeeui'Uilig to tne Uesi
yuuglnent ol its Committees working
wnn Hie 1'ielicti government. niese
letters were written lrum Hospitals
near tne tiring line in Belgium ami
rlance;
.viany vvoumied soulicrs arc inlccieu
ny me civilians suuermg Hum ty plioiu
who must tie cured lor. .Many ol tne
typnuiu patients aiv sent on to more
remote Hospitals—aim on wnai roads,
incy uie on their arrivalcut of seven
tnouglit in one uay in that eoimilmn
live nave died. We dope lu illcrec.Hc
tlie number of beds in our hospital.
Tlie doctors declare that if we had
suttlcieiil funds to continue tlie work
the epidemic would be checked in Hvo
months.
".Most of the typhus cases are refu
gees who lied before tlie Germans. In
ordinary times tlie population of this
town Is S.ooti. Now there are 80,000
people living here—in tlie most fright
ful proximity generally, in hovels,
stables and sheds. 1 have seen a fam
ily of twelve crowded together with
the horses in the stable without air or
light, and in tfirt indescribable. Many
are dying from hunger.
“I cannot give you details as to the
peculiar signs of the epidemic. Here
it generally looks like typhoid fever,
malignant and very catching. Whole
families are brought to us of ten per
sons. The treatment is painful; Most
patients arc unconscious and weak.
Often the sick people are concealed
by their families because the disease
is not understood. Much good could
he done if we could go about among
them and teach them simple hygiene.
Two of our nurses have got the in
fection in spite of all precautions.
“Because of lack of space, we refuse
many patients every day, who come
begging admittance. There would be
two or three thousand in the immedi
ate neighborhood to lie taken in if we
could care for them.
“We must appeal to private charity,
i >ur work is for civilians and soldiers
alike. We care for the civilians and
protect the soldiers as much as pos
sible against infection. In the begin
ning a little money would have saved
so many lives—and always the lives
of yonug men! It is between the ages
of fifteen and twenty-five that most of
them die. The mortality is frightful!
“To continue our work we must have
money, hedding. washing and disin
fecting apparatus, and food. Our need
is most urgent."
Another letter reads;
"There are eighty patients in nil, and
oh! what a desperate state they are In!
Tliis only a temporary hospital; it
was formerly a school. The patients
• re quartered in four rooms, and up
to the time of our arrival there were
but seven nurses. Two attended to the
medicines, temperatures, hypodermics,
cupping, etc; two gave tlie lotions—a
cross between a tub and a sponge—i
two carried the food, and one remained
ion duty at night. You cun only half j
imagine tin- condition in which we
found tlie poor souls. t'p to three
weeks ago tlie wounded soldiers came
here, hut now it is only the typhoid
ea ses.
"There is a pump in the yard, but not
a tap in the building. Every drop of
water must lie carried upstairs and
heating it Is a difficult matter. At
first we had only one jug to carry it
in- now we have five buckets. Olso,
there are exactly five basins for wash
ing the patients! And there were but
eight cuspidors in tlie place--they had
been using tlie Hour but now we have
twenty empty cundenced milk cans in
| use as cuspidors. There is but one
chair in each ward, and no bed tables,
I cio mugs, cups and any idling go on the
Hour, -vs yet Wo nave nut improvised j
a place lor Uisuileeting Hie soileu linen.
Vv e need disinfectant badly .
1 lie mat tresses arc all old ones lruui
the barracks, straw ana lumps oi waa !
umg, ana eucli one is worse than iiimy
auu smells lrigliltuny, as you will un
Ui island wlien i tell you llicy have
never hud such a thing as a diawsUcet. |
’me men seem so surprised when vve
want lo change the soiled ones. Tile
wonder is liiui there is no bcU sores.
I think tlie reason is because each one
jot tlie men lias walked out lo tlie toilet
vv nether staggering with uelirlum or
not. When vve first got there we all
slayed on day duly to try and get lliej
patients clean and their beds made, j
[ They one and all said ihat they had
[ not been washed for three weeks, or,
j laid their beds made, cju many could j
not lie cared for by so few. You can j
imagine tlie condition of their mouths
I- frightful!
"Aly first night began with a death —
a poor little hoy of eighteen, lie died
in full view of ull the petients such
a tiling as a screen is unheard of here j
and after he died two orderlies jusi j
carried him away to tlie attic. As they
were carrying his, a delirious patient
got out of lied and was tottering b>
the door; tlie orderlies had to put tlie'
stretcher down with the body on the I
landing, and secure tlie wanderer In I
tlie meantime, several of the other
patients who were going to mid fro bij
tip. toilet, had to step over tlie stretch
er and tlie corpse. The toilets are on
each landing all in full v iew and are
only- wine vats cut in half with a hoard
over tlie top for a seat. Of course,
they are occupied almost constantly -
and we are short of disinfectants.
“i am writing this in the ward with
ten delirious men around me, some
coughing constantly and some mutter
ing, while others t think 1 had better
stop. Each detail, ns i think of it.
seems worse than the last: it is grue
some and all so frightfully unsanitary.
"Of course, we all have had throats.
It could not tie otherwise. The odors
are terrible So many of the patients
have bronchial pneumonia or pleurisy
with the typhoid. The way the eases
are mixed up is awful, too a tvphoid
pneumnnia and a tubercular ease side
by side and most using tlie same sputa
cup. UpstPirs a ringworm man is at
large, getting nothing for it. not even
an ointment. T have never seen so
many rings at a time—all over his
sealp and covering half his back.
"This place is a veritable pesthouse
—bill what can we do without suffic
ient help or supplies! We need every
thing medicines, food, bedding, and.
most of all. disinfectants."
From another temporary hospital
comes this report:
“We started work on Monday, and it
is work—no glamor about it. It is
pretty awful, but our party is working
splendid, and, certainly, there is no
question as to whether we are wanted.
There is enough work for fifty women
to do, hut it is not possible to send for
more ns there is no aceornmndiation
anywhere.
"We have absolutely nothing here—
no supplies. Tlie men have no socks
and they wear their dirty uniforms in
bed. We have no clean shirts, no bed
jackets. no slippers. Tt is impossible
to buy anything here.
"There are three hundred and fifty
wounded—sometimes five hundred.
Most of these men are terribly injured.
I help with the dressings and see some
awful sights. Would lie so grateful
for anything you might send. You
have no idea how badly things are
needed practically everything."
Tlie American Ttelief Clearing House
lias sent aid to these hospitals. Hut
there are many such applications:
many that cannot lie helped because
of insufficient supplies and money, even
when the applications havo been ap
proved by the Committee appointed
for that purpose without whose en
dorsement nothing is given out by the
Clearing House.
The hospitals are Hie most Impor
lint in the European situation—the
trench that bolds hack disease. Money
to huy medical supplies is the ammuni
tion needed, so that it may hold out
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disease until conditions ;ire adjusted
and people in Europe no longer die
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