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Show m no T 111 UKE Boys in Camp Have Few Diseases; Malaria Mosquito Mos-quito Found. CAM1 t.KW IS. Tuc.oma, Wash.. Sopt. t.Thero wero only fifty oases of com-nninu-HMo diseases in Oamp .Lewis during dur-ing the past wwk Rinonjsr tho S.VJi'S mon stationed there during that period, tho Weekly health report of Major 1. 1. Mo-iiUssan, Mo-iiUssan, oamp sanitary inspector, issued today, shows. There wcro no deaths. Influenza cont Inued to be the- most prevalent disease, tho report show ins nineteen eases, Mumps was second, with twelve oases. Other diseases In the report re-port were; lMphtheria. one; measles, six; pneumonia, seven; searlot fever, two; miliaria, mil-iaria, tw o. and eh ioken pox, one ease. Three pneumonia oases were, union? v. a ly -arrived draft men. and both eases . --r luahvria were contraeted by tho ?ol-diers ?ol-diers before coming here. The one oas,e of diphtheria also .is In tho depot bricade. The monthly sanitary report of Major McCSlassan also was issued today. . Its inost interesting; feature is tho discovery bv camp authorities of the malaria-carry malaria-carry ins mosquito, scientifically known as the anopheles punctipennis in tills vicinity. This is the first time this mosquito, mos-quito, the only malaria-carrying member of that family, has been identified us having hav-ing habitat in the Pacific northwest. |