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Show FINE HEALTH RECORD OF AMERICAN ARMY WASHINGTON", Dec. 6. The health of the American army, both at home and oversea., has been excellent and the mortality mor-tality rate from disease probably lower tli an in any similar body nf troops in the history of warfare, Surgeon-General William C. Gorgas declared in his annual an-nual report made public today. Complete statistics of deaths in army camps are not included in the report, which covers only the fiscal year to June 30, 1918. In fv total deaths from disease were nd the death rate per thousand 6.3. This N'-nipares with a seven-year average of j ' 4.9 per thousand. 1 Contrasting this record with that of ' previous years. General Gorgas points, out that if the morbidity of typhoid ffver bad been the same as in 1898 there would have been 1400 deaths from ihat disease alone, whereas there were only twenty- i three. Measles is placed at the head of the diseases causing deaths, although the tp-port tp-port shews that GS per cent of the deaths were due to resultant pneumonia. |