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Show LOWER DEATH RATES i mm mm Slight Improvement in General Gen-eral Health Conditions ; Shown by Report. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. Lower death rates in both the national guard ind national na-tional army divisions in this country during' dur-ing' the week ended December 28 are shown by the weekly report of the division divi-sion of field sanitation. In the guard there were lo$ deaths, as against 120 the previous previ-ous week, and in the national army there were 9s, compared with US the week before. Slight improvement in general health conditions in the camps also is shown, there being a marked abatement of menineritis epidemics prevailing in several sev-eral camps. Pneumonia epidemics also have improved somewhat, but 73 deaths among the guardsmen and 66 among the naUonal army men being the result of this disease. Meningitis is on the increase in two guard divisions, the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-ninth, the former having twelve new cases and the latter seven. Three guard divisions, the Thirty-first, Thirty-fourth Thirty-fourth and Thirty-sixth, led in the number num-ber of pneumonia cases admitted, but the number in the Tlurty-iirst division was reduced one-half over the preceding week. Only a few cases are, prevalent in the other divisions. The measles situation has improved materially in all guard camps. In the national army the Eighty-first . division had thirty admissions for menin- I gitis, as against thirty-seven the previous j week, and the Ninetieth had nine new i cases of this disease. The number of I cases in the other cantonments was l smalL l Pneumonia increased rapidly in three divisions, the Eighty-seventh having 67 new cases, as against 6 the week before; the Ninetieth, 63, against 14 ; and the Eighty-second, 26, against 4. The number num-ber in other divisions was relatively ! small. I Measles continue prevalent, the re- 1 port says, in the Eightieth, Eighty-sec- ; ond, Eighty-seventh and Eighty-ninth divisions, with increases in the Eightieth . and Eighty-ninth. German measles continues con-tinues in epidemic form in the Ninety- ! first division, and scarlet fever prevails ; quite extensively in the Eighty-seventh j division. |