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Show SICKNESS IN ARMY CAMPS INCREASES WASHINGTON. April 24. The influx of new men to the army training camps in this country resulted in an increased rate of admission to hospitals last week, today's report to the division of field ean'tation shows. Epidemics of influenza prevail in National Guard camps in the couth, as well as national army camps, and, as a result, pneumonia continues with a high incidence, although the number of new cases is lower than the week before. be-fore. In the regular army some S00 new cases of pneumonia were reparted. The total deaths for the week were 278 against 2S5 for the week before. There were sixty-nine deaths in the regular reg-ular armv; forty-nine in the National Guard, and 160 in the national army. |