Show DIE IN ISLES Mortality AID QiliiS in tk Philippines i s is 5 fey SMall i iJ I WHAT RECORDS SHOW Death Rate is i But Seventy four Per Month 1 ABSURD STATEMENT REFUTED 1 I Story That Gen Otiss Campaign la Costing Upwards oC 1000 Men Every Month Shown to be Untrue Since the American Occupation Juno 1 1898 to February 17 1900 the Actual Mortality In the Army in the Archipelago is 05 Officers and 1460 Men a Total Loss of 1525 Partytwo Officers and 570 Men Died of Violence Most of Deaths Occurring in Battle Tliere Were However 137 Deaths from Violence Vio-lence Outside of Actual Hostilities Half of Whom Were Drowned Washington March 2L War department depart-ment officials deny recently published statements that Gen Otiss campaign Is costing upwards of 1000 men every month According to the official records since the American occupation Juno 1 ISDS to February 17 1000 the actual mortality mor-tality in the army in the Philippines was sixtyfive ofllcers and 1160 men a total of 1525 or at the rate of seventy four deaths a month More details are contained In the report re-port of Cot WoodhullchleC surgeon His report however does not extend beyond the end of the last calendar year It shows that up to December 1 1S9D the total number of deaflia were fiftyeight ofllcers and 12C3 men Of this number fortytwo officers and CSS men died of disease Most of the deaths by violence occurred oc-curred In battle There werehowever 337 deaths from violence outside oC actual hostilities It Is a singular fact that more than onehalf of the latter class were caused by drowning The total number of wounded without with-out fatal results during the period covered cov-ered by the report was 17C7 SurgeonGeneral Sternberg says that many of the alarming statements of disease and death in the Philippines S seem to be based on the fact that largo details of contract surgeons are being forwarded to the Philippines The fact of the mailer Is there Is no particular par-ticular increase of the number of medical medi-cal olllccrs In the Philippines Tho contract surgeons now being sent there 4 arc simply to take the places of others expired and who whose contracts have are entllled to come home He admitted ad-mitted that twentyfour ofllcers of the medical department were on the transport trans-port which sailed from San Francisco I I but explained that a few days ago they had been gathering at Sin Fran transportation elsco for several weeks awaiting portation undo orders Issued In the Usual routine |