Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1915 — RESCUED SERBIA FROM TYPHUS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RESCUED SERBIA FROM TYPHUS

From left to right: Dr. Richard P. Strong and Dr. Edward Ryan, who headed the sanitary work in Serbia that saved that country from the ravages of typhus fever. Doctor Strong, professor of tropical diseases in Harvard Medical school, was chief of the American Red Cross sanitary commission, with beadquarters at Nish. Dr. Ryan is head of the American hospital at Belgrade. He wears the medal of the French Legion of Honor.