will be remembered that Dr. Barrie, who had great experience of typhus in Servia, volunteered for the north, tu advise on the best means by which an outbreak of this terrible disease might be averted. In the following extremely interesting notes he touches on some salient features of the taurine, which de-Serve the, attention of all concerned win relief work.
have just completed a tour of the famine areas, having as my sole object a brief study of prevailing local—conditions which might prove of value in case an outbreak of typhus occurs in the spring months, the course of this investigation several interesting points ihave come to my notice. There is the apparent discrepancy existing between the great quantities of grain accumulating about some railway centres and the acute dis-ures and helplessness observed in villages which lie at a distance of yom 50 to 70 li away from the railway lines. Four days were spent on horseback investigating some of these country districts, and there can be no doubt as to the existence of dire distress. In most of the houses the women and children were the chief sufferers. Their men folk deserted them weeks or months ago and their condition has become pitiable. Many of the villages seen were situated in mountainous country where nothing but coolie and donkey transportation is possible, owing to an absence of cart-roads. There does not, however, appear to be any lack of labour material of either kind, with which to transport grain to these outlying parts, Why then is the grain not reaching these villages?
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