Photo by Krdelyi 



se:rvian wome;n in gala costume; 



The women of Servia are devoted to their homes and will perform any amount of 

 household drudgery for their own families. But a Servian woman will not take service in 

 a strange home; neither is she to be found as a shop assistant or in any commercial position. 

 The woman who wears a Paris gown to a ball this evening may often be found doing her 

 own housework tomorrow. 



ease that could come to them. The worst 

 part of the situation is that the doctor 

 and the nurse who volunteer for service 

 in a typhus - eradication campaign in 

 crowded camps accept great chances that 

 they themselves will become infected, in 

 spite of every precaution, for it requires 

 the greatest care and the most remark- 

 able series of measures imaginable to pre- 

 vent the transmission of the vermin to 

 the clothes of those in attendance upon 



the sick. They must be garbed from 

 head to foot in impervious sacking, must 

 wear rubber gloves, and must smear mer- 

 curial-ointment on the wrists. A single 

 one of the hundreds of parasites often 

 found on the patients and their clothes, 

 coming into contact with the skin of the 

 doctor or nurse, would communicate the 

 disease. 



Typhus is not as different in its Symp- 

 lons from typhoid, in its early stages, as 



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