Note 254 — Chapter XXVI · PUBLIC HEALTH AND SANITATION

During the earlier years of the World War, before the armies of the Central Powers overran Serbia, that country was stricken with typhus from one end to the other. The Allied countries equipped a great sanitary expedition which went through the land and virtually disinfected the entire population. Trains of box cars were fitted up as bathing and delousing plants, with hot water and steam from the locomotive. These trains went along from village to village, stopping at each long enough to put the inhabitants, one by one, through the scrubbing process and their clothing through the steam vat.