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Administering Angels

Administering Angels. International response to the 1915 Serbian Typhus Epidemic. Angela Bowen Potter IUPUI- WIMPS Presentation September 30, 2014. Kathleen Burke Scottish Women's Hospital Administering Angels. Administering Angel. Angels of Mercy. Organized Women.

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  1. Administering Angels International response to the 1915 Serbian Typhus Epidemic Angela Bowen Potter IUPUI- WIMPS Presentation September 30, 2014

  2. Kathleen BurkeScottish Women's HospitalAdministering Angels

  3. Administering Angel

  4. Angels of Mercy

  5. Organized Women

  6. Typhus Epidemic 1915

  7. Administering Angels In Action

  8. International Humanitarian Response to Typhus 3 Plans developed Typhus Defeated First Missions Retreat of Missions

  9. Serbia Typhus Epidemic 1915International Humanitarian Relief Project • Conference Paper • Digital Map • Digital Timeline

  10. Serbia 1914

  11. The Balkan Campaigns 1914 2nd Balkan Campaign December 1914 1st Balkan Campaign July 1914

  12. Allied View of Serbia

  13. Serbian Red Cross

  14. 1914 Efforts

  15. 1914 British Efforts Flora Sandes British Volunteer with Mrs. Grujic 9/1914 First SRF Assistance 11/1914

  16. Serbian relief Fund

  17. British Red Cross in Serbia BRX in Skopje, 1915 BRX in Skopje, 1915

  18. American Red Cross

  19. Typhus “Raise it’s Ugly Head”December 1914

  20. Typhus Cases January-march 1915

  21. Typhus Epidemic New Discoveries Typhus

  22. “the gravity of the Situation”January 1915

  23. Russian Images of Typhus

  24. Scottish women’s Hospitals: “send us where we are most needed”January 1915 Telegraph, January 1915 Fundraising, January 1915

  25. Valjevo “Sort the Living From the Dead” Emily Simmons, ARC

  26. French Missions

  27. Developing a Coordinated Plan? 1. Skopje Plan- February 1915 • British Red Cross, Serbian Relief Fund and Serbian Civilian Government • Medical and Public Health Missions 2. RAMC Plan- February 1915 • British Royal Army Medical Corps, British Government and Serbian Military • Public Health & Education 3. Paris Plan- March 1915 • French, American and British Red Crosses and government • Divide Serbia into districts, with American and Brattish sectors

  28. Skopje Plan- February 1915 Dr. Katherine McPhail, SWH British Red Cross, Serbian Relief Fund and Serbian Civilian GovernmentMedical and Public Health Missions

  29. Berry Mission

  30. RAMC Plan- February 1915British Royal Army Medical Corps, British Government and Serbian Military Public Health & • Education

  31. RAMC Plan- February 1915

  32. Dr. Elise Inglis Scottish Women’s Hospitals

  33. Serbian Relief FundMarch 1915 Claire Stobart First Field Flying Hospital

  34. Serbian Sanitary Relief CommissionAmerican red Cross and Rockefeller Foundation

  35. French meetingMarch, 30 1915

  36. March 30, 1915

  37. April 1915

  38. SWH

  39. Summer 1915

  40. Public Health Education

  41. Fall 1915 Before After

  42. Fall 1915

  43. November & December 1915- retreat

  44. Retreat

  45. Remembering the Epidemic In Serbia

  46. Remembering the Epidemic SWH SRF

  47. Conclusions • Early example of a large scale international humanitarian effort. • Mission advanced the state of medical research and type of response to epidemics. Used later in the war. • Missions developed a new format of combining medical missions with public health efforts. • Response built broader commitments to the Serbian Front. • Demonstrated that women could serve on the front lines as doctors and nurses. • Analysis of the administration of the efforts show the role of World War I in the way relief administered. Shows the need of a lead agency to coordinate the effort.

  48. New Administering Angel?Ernest Bicknell

  49. Administering Angel

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