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Show HEALTH GOOD DURING GUARD MOBILIZATION Annual Report of Medical Department Indicates Improvement Over ; Spanish War Conditions. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. Mobilization Mobiliza-tion of the national guard for border service was accomplished with the mini-I mini-I mum of disenso or discomfort, accord ing to tho annual report of the medical medi-cal department of tho army, signed by Colonel Birmingham, acting surgeon general, and made public today. The weekly nen-efl'ective rate for the guard was 18.13 men per thousand, Colonel Birmingham says, adding that this showing clearly indicates the advance ad-vance made when compared to the much higher figures of tho Spanish war mobilizatiou. The rate for tho entire regular nrmv during 1015 was 25.22 per thousand men, a slight increaso over 1914, but well below the averago of the preceding decade. There were but eight cases ot typhoid fever during tho year and no deaths. |