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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
An Old Town with New Plumbers. A view of Stolac, located near the border of Monetenegro, and one of the prettiest towns in Herzegovina, an old Austrian province, now a part of the new Yugo-Slav nation. Its beautiful, quiet appearance hides the destitution and sickness that prevailed there. It is one of the many towns in this part of Southern Europe which received American aid. Here Red Cross doctors showed the people how to get rid of their disease epidemic by simply sanitary installations and municipal improvements
Christiansted, Saint Croix, Virgin Islands. The laundry at the Christiansted hospital. Here all the linen for the hospital is washed
Mud Huts for Homes. A scene today in the old war zone of Roumania. From the ruins of the battlefields, the Roumanians have constructed these shelters from mud. Many are built on the old trench dugouts, the inhabitants living underground. Some of the huts shelter as many as five families. It was in this district that the American Red Cross doctors and nurses found much disease. The unsanitary conditions were a constant source of epidemics
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
Women of the Balkans. A typical group of women from the mountain district of Serbia. They are taking a sun bath on the side of the American Red Cross station at Batch while waiting for the distribution of relief supplies. Note their aprons and similarity of dress. The aprons are made of coarse handspun wool with fine red and white stripes. The jackets are the native costume of the village from which they come. They hav ewalked many miles for Red Cross supplies. Several of them are barefoot and none have stockings
Teo sic mountain children, Thethi, Albania. They are among the members of the little school that is being started in this far away inacessible village. They are wearing the clothing that all Shala children wear, but one finds few dresses so fresh and new. They are dresses made of heavy white and black wook, more like felt than cloth, all the seams joined with vlack sic hand made braid. Underclothes save for a possible shemise are not considered necessary
Home hygiene film "Every Woman's Problem." How Mrs Helpless learned to make Aunt Mary, an invalid member of her family, more comfortable is the theme of a one-reel motion picture based on the Red Cross course in home hygiene and care of the sick. After trying to give Aunt Mary a bed-bath, Mrs. Helpless realizes that skillful nursing depends on more than sympathy and good will
Two girls from a nearby village volunteered to help, and, putting aprons over their frocks, worked for six hours without pause, washing the weak and indescribably dirty men. This train of 30 Russian box-cars with 150 sick Russian soldiers has been from place to place in Russia since May 10, 4 months. The men were in a dreadful condition suffering from Typhus, spotted fever or dysentary. At Nickolsk the American Red Cross came to rescue, washed, fed and treated the men and cleaned and disinfected the train
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
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Paris Office.
Group title: Serbia.
On caption card: (11541)
Used in: Ex. T.T.C. Journal. indef.
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
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Date
01/01/1919
Location
Kumanovo
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