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Show NATIONAL ARMY CAMP FATALITIES INCREASE Health Conditions, However, F.eport-ed Materially Improved During Week. WASHIXGTOX, Dec. 5. Although health conditions generally in the national na-tional guard camps siiow'ed improvement improve-ment during the week ending November Novem-ber o0, the number of deaths materially increased. The report of the division of field .vitation. made public today shows t!,,;t there were !b4 deaths among the guardsmen as compared wilh 97 the previous pre-vious week and 79 among the draft men as aainst fin the preceding week. One hundred and thirty-four of the guardsmen and 39 of the draft men died from pneumonia and 9 of the rormer and 15 of the latter died from meningitis. menin-gitis. Only two divisions, the Thirty-fourth (guard) and Eighty-seventh (national armv), reported an increase in cases of measles and the number was small. In the divisions where there has been an epidemic of measles the disease appar-! appar-! entlv has been brought under control. Reports from all but one of the divisions di-visions in which pneumonia has been prevalent show a decrease in the number num-ber ot new cases |