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...first step taken in the University to investigate the outbreak of typhus in Servia was the sending of Dr. Strong from the Harvard-Technology School for Health Officers a few weeks ago. Upon his arrival, Dr. Strong cabled over for a force of twenty-five sanitary inspectors and physicians from the School to aid in fighting the disease...
With this summons came news of the true and terrible conditions in Servia. The country is in chaos on account of the plague; the people, believing that they are pursued by evil spirits, run panicstricken about the country, scattering the disease, and dying in fields and roads. A serum has been discovered, but it has not yet been given a complete trial...
...George Macaulay Trevelyan, speaking in the Union last night, gave a brilliant description of present social and political conditions in the Balkan peninsula. Coming almost directly from Servia, where he has travelled and studied conditions during the past few months, Mr. Trevelyan told of the terrible epidemic of typhus fever which is now raging there, and of the courageous work which is being done to combat it by British and American doctors and nurses...
...great causes of disturbance in the Balkan countries and their neighbors today. This distortion of boundaries is due to historical causes. Since Austria drove the Turks from Hungary, she has continually attempted to check the southern Slav, grasping territory whenever possible. During the nineteenth century, Servia, Greece, Roumania, and Bulgaria freed themselves from the Turk, and by a concerted effort in 1912, almost drove him from Europe...
...Lecture on "Servia in War Time," by G. M. Trevelyan in Living Room of Union...