"More people are now dying daily than during the war," declared Henry P. Davison, head of the League of Red Cross Societies, recently, and at the top of the list of diseases that menace all civilization he placed typhus. This plague is the child of poverty and the resulting uncleanliness and is nourished by chaos that is causing mass movements of population in Europe. The disease has been described as attacking its victims "like the kick of a horse" and this photograph is a graphic illustration of its effect. This Russian, collapsed at the very door of the building where care could be given him