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Members of the Interallied Medical Comm. sent by the League of Red Cross Societies to investigate the typhus situation in Poland being conducted by General Szamola, commander of Brest-Litovsk, through the prison camp for Bolshevik and Ukrainian prisoners. The Comm. found that typhus is practically epidemic among the prisoners and this throughout Poalnd. The prisoners are given the same medical attention as the Polish soldiers, and the medical authorities are keenly alive to the seriousness of the situation. They are doing their best to stamp out typhus and other infectious diseases, but they are terribly handicapped by the lack of soap, disinfectants, drugs, sheets, blankets, clothing and the most essential hospital equipment. The commission has recommended united effort to stamp out typhus in Poland and prevent its spread to Western Europe and America

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Members of the Interallied Medical Comm. sent by the League of Red Cross Societies to investigate the typhus situation in Poland being conducted by General Szamola, commander of Brest-Litovsk, through the prison camp for Bolshevik and Ukrainian prisoners. The Comm. found that typhus is practically epidemic among the prisoners and this throughout Poalnd. The prisoners are given the same medical attention as the Polish soldiers, and the medical authorities are keenly alive to the seriousness of the situation. They are doing their best to stamp out typhus and other infectious diseases, but they are terribly handicapped by the lack of soap, disinfectants, drugs, sheets, blankets, clothing and the most essential hospital equipment. The commission has recommended united effort to stamp out typhus in Poland and prevent its spread to Western Europe and America

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Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Capt. Marshall.
Group title: Poland.
On caption card: (72)
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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01/01/1919
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