Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-18 | Page 17 | Death Percentage from Wounds Light

DEATH PERCENTAGE FROM WOUNDS LIGHT Fatalities Among Americans Ameri-cans Injured in Battle Very Few. Commenting upon the matter of casualties cas-ualties among the American expeditionary expedition-ary forces in the Marne-Aisne offensive, offen-sive, the chief of staff of the United States army is quoted in the Army and Navy Journal as stating that the percentage per-centage of deaths' among wounded soldiers sol-diers sent to the hospitals for treatment treat-ment is less than one in twenty. The statement says: "Of all the soldiers sent to the hospitals, hos-pitals, only forty-five in every 1000 die. These include those who die of disease as well as those who die of wounds. Of all soldiers wounded in action, more than four-fifths return to service, many of them in less than two months. It is necessary to discharge for physical disability only 14.5 per cent. These figures are based on an average of both British and FreDch official of-ficial figures, including both officers and men. The two are averaged together, to-gether, since American troops are fight-iing fight-iing with both the French and '"the British, under conditions which vary. They show: Beturned to service, SI per cent, or 810 per 1000; discharged from service because of physical disability dis-ability or other causes, 14.5 per cent or 145 per 1000; died frorm wounds, 4 5 per cent, or 45 per 1000.