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Show DRAFTS TEGiN TO REACHJCAMP LEWIS Large Numbers Expected Today ; Improvement Noted in Health. CAMP LEWIS, Tacorna, Wash., April 27. Fourteen hundred and twenty-two men were received into the national army at Camp Lewis yesterday, and 987 were inducted into the service to- j day, in the April contingent of the draft of nearly 10,000 men which Camp Lewis is to receive within a week. The arrivals today were from Idaho, Montana, Washington and Oregon. Tomorrow To-morrow special trains will bring men from Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, and a large number are expected on regular trams. Opportunity for advancement of Camp Lewis men was offered today in a bulletin announcing examinations to fill vacancies in the corps of interpreters, interpre-ters, national army. A board of live officers is to be appointed to examine the candidates and recommend the necessary nec-essary number for the Ninety-first division. di-vision. A great improvement in health conditions condi-tions at Camp Lewis is shown in the weekly report of Major F. K. Mount, division sanitary inspector, made public pub-lic today ,by Licutenant-Colouel P. C. Field, division surgeon. The" report follows: fol-lows: ''Communicable diseases reported as occurring at Camp Lewis for the week ending midnight, April 25, 1913. Mumps. Ill cases to 31,334 men. Measles, four cases to 31,334 men. " German measles, three cases to 31,-334 31,-334 men. "Scarlet fever, eleven cases to 31,-334 31,-334 men. "Broncho pneumonia, one case to 31, 334 men. "With the exception of mumps, which also are diminishing in numbers, there is a marked decrease in all communicable com-municable diseases. There were no deaths reported duriDg the eek." , |