Word: servia
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...part which Harvard men have been playing in the war is highly honorable. Some are helping to care for the wounded in France; others are fighting pestilence in Servia; and at present another "surgical unit" is being organized for work behind the lines. There is, however, room and need for much more service of this sort, not only on the part of men with medical training, but for others in general ambulance work...
...Harvard-Technology group of sanitary engineers, physicians, and sanitary inspectors, who are going to fight the typhus and cholera which is raging in Servia, will sail on the Athenia from New York this afternoon at 4 o'clock. They will be supported by the American Red Cross for an indefinite stay in Servia since their mission is a very dangerous and uncertain...
...they will be exposed to far more danger than if they were fighting in the trenches, for one bite from a louse, the vermin which carries the typhus, is considered fatal. The spirit and courage of the men who have volunteered to fight this pest which is now ravaging Servia, is, as Professor Sedgwick and others have remarked, nothing short of heroic...
...formation of a Harvard-Technology group of sanitary engineers and physicians, in order to fight the typhus and cholera in Servia has just been completed, and the group will sail from New York on the Athenia next Saturday. They are being supported by the American Red Cross, and were organized by Professor W. T. Sedgwick from the students of the University Medical School, the Harvard-Technology School for Health Officers, and the sanitary engineering department of the Institute of Technology...
...weeks ago Professor R. P. Strong, of the Medical School left for Servia in company with Dr. F. B. Grinnell and Dr. P. T. Cellards. As soon as they arrived in that country, Dr. Strong realized the serious dangers which threatened there because of the prevalence of typhus and cholera, and immediately cabled over to his associates here for a group of twenty-five doctors and one sanitary engineer. Professor Sedgwick undertook the organization of the group, and has succeeded in securing more volunteers than were needed. Mr. Edward Stuart, a sanitary engineer, has been put in charge...