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Scurvy, scrofula and scabies were common among the poor. Bathing was rare: one Quaker lady noted in her diary in 1799 that she withstood a shower bath "better than I expected, not having been wett all over at once, for 28 years past." Body lice were omnipresent, as was the disease they carried-typhus fever. Frequent births and poor obstetrics accounted for the high mortality in mothers; the death rate among black women served by midwives was lower than among whites served by physicians. Mental illness was seen as the work of the devil: the village idiot was either derided...
...inhabitants of Lice measured their loss in the simpler terms of death, injury and destruction. More than 1,000 corpses were uncovered last week, and several hundred more may be found before the gruesome search is completed. Necmettin Esenter, a municipal clerk who lost eight members of his family, held out his bloody hands and wept: "I dug out my two-year-old daughter Vedia from under a rock with these hands...
...death toll was not limited to Lice. Landslides and other side effects that were set off by the earthquake killed at least another 1,000 in dozens of nearby hillside villages. An estimated 30,000 inhabitants of this remote southeastern farm region have been left homeless, and about 3,000 injuries have been reported...
...Lice area, which is situated at the juncture of two shifting rock plates, is one of three Turkish regions prone to earthquakes. Even more vulnerable than Lice are towns along the Anatolian fault, which cuts horizontally across the northern tier of Turkey. The third seismic zone is in the west, in Turkey's Aegean provinces. Since 1903 earthquakes have caused more than 64,000 deaths in these three regions...
Angry Turks. In 1966 the government offered to help residents of Lice relocate their homes on safer, flatter terrain below the existing village. Only 150 families were willing to make the move. Their reinforced concrete homes-unlike the older stone and mortar houses on the hillside-survived the recent earthquake with only slight damage. After a special five-hour Cabinet meeting last week, Turkey's Premier Suleyman Demirel promised that an estimated $35 million would be spent to house all the survivors of Lice in similarly quake-proof homes. The U.S. was expected to offer help, but the Turks...