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A type of the shrines often found beside the water wells of Serbia. Among the superstitious these shrines were a sure protection against contamination-a substitute for what city dwellers in America know as chlorine. The more elaborate the decorations, the purer the water was supposed to be. But American doctors directing the Red Cross Medical Relief campaign judged the water from a chemical standpoint and many of the shrines lost in prestige there by as the A.R.C. men found that disease was rampant in some of the ancient wells
The community washtub. In some villages of Serbia like this one near Kumanovo, there is only one well so te house wives form groups and each group does the family wash on separate days all in the same stone tub before the fountain. The mothers bring their children and they play in the vicinity. These people are typical of the thousands that the Red Cross fed, clothed and treated for illness during the past year
Hundreds of refugee families are now occupying the trenches vacated by the soldiers in the Balkans. This shows the interior of one of the dugout homes after it has been plastered with baked mud and straw and whitewashed. Much of the American Red Cross medical efforts are directed among these poor people, whose children are far from healthy under such living conditions
Of all the diseases that broke out in central Europe during the last months of the war and following the armistice typhus assumed the greatest proportion, becoming epidemic in all the countries. For a time there was a grave danger that it would spread to the Western part of the continent. Early in January the American Red Cross sent medical units throughout that part of the world. They carried with them medicines, hospital tents and equipment. A systematic campaign was commenced to arradicate the scourge. In the picture one of the Red Cross ambulances is seen in Serbia bringing Typhus victims to the field hospital
American health measures for Balkan babies. Miss Blanche Grundy of San Francisco, nurse in the Junior Red Cross of America Children's clinic at Elbasan with her interpreter and one of the many children who have undergone treatment there. Junior Red Cross propoganda in the cause of child welfare is slowly enlightening the fogged minds of native mothers in several of the Balkan countries on the subject of hygiene and home care of their babies and growing children
West side Water front in Salonica. The busiest and most modern spot in this great Near East port. Half a dozen American motor trucks in the service of the American Red Cross give this picture an unusual view of Salonica. They are lined up before this one of the Red Cross' eight warehouses for transportation of relief supplies to thousands of destitute people in Serbia and other parts of the Balkans. So crowded in this town in caring for its added refugee population and the needs of the Allied Army that the Red Cross had to share this particular warehouse with a French Army restaurant
American ambulances for Balkans. The type of car that the American Red Cross is using at its various hospitals in the Balkans. Answering an emergency request from the Roumanian government recently the Red Cross gathered twenty of these ambulances from its hospitals in one day and sent them with the Roumanian Army into Budapest. This picture was taken on the docks at Salonica, Greece
A Russian Junior's morning wash. One of the lasting results of the work of the American Red Cross mission sent to Riga under Colonel Edward Ryan, has been the increased cleanliness of the natives who had become careless through many years of neglect. Today even the smallest children take their morning dip in clean, fresh water, a good antidote for the spread of the typhus fever, once epidemic in this section of the Baltic provinces
The exterior of the American Red Cross delousing plant at Belgrade where thousands have been disinfected. This is part of the Red Cross system of fighting typhus. The building was built by the Germans during their occupation of the city and was on of the few useful things they left behind
A typical scene on the Serbo-Greek frontier. It shows a Macedonian girl filling the family water pitcher at the public fountain. This is a common source of water supply to the inhabitants of Macedonia. American Red Cross doctors believe that much disease is caused by the unsanitary water supplies of the Balkans
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. Paris Office.
Group title: Greece.
On caption card: (11504)
Used in: Ex. indef. Tech. Tr. & Cl. Jr.
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
Temp note: Batch 11
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american red cross
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unsanitary water supplies
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macedonian girl
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world war i
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library of congress
Date
01/01/1919
Location
Greece
Source
Library of Congress
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