Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-13 | Page 1 | Many Sick and Wounded

MANY SICK AND WOUNDED. i Hoavy Bains and Bad Weather Add to tho Number of Invalids. ST. PETERSBURG, July 12. An official of-ficial statement of the number of sick and wounded belonging to the Manchuiian army shows a great increase in-crease in sickness after a few days' rain, and also a large proportion of flick and wounded officers compared with men. The figures are according to tho llsleil strength of the army. Before tho rains, to June 26. the total was: Officers, Offi-cers, 71, and men, 3D per 1000. of whom wounded officers numbered 10 and men six per 1000; suffering from contagious diseases, two per 100U, of whom one-half one-half were suffering from dysentery and one-tenth from typhoid. Thero was one case of plague and not a single case of smallpox. After tho rains, July 9, thc figures ' were- Officers, 04 per 1000: men, -16. of whom thc wounded officers numbered 20 per 1000, the men nine per 1000. Contagious Con-tagious cases had risen to nine per 1000, affecting lu equal proportions dysentery dysen-tery and typhus, and Introducing scurvy scur-vy and smallpox, of which there were three cases, and bringing up the plague to seven cases. Twenty-two cases of horse and cattle plague Avere also reported.