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Show in ill in staiioh or up Rigid Rules of Hygiene i Stamp Out Disease. Report Shows Sy Associated Prase WASHINGTON, Dec. I. The navy's excellent health and low mortality rate during the war are attributed by Rear Admiral Bralaled, surgeon general of tho navy. In his annual report today, largely to the Increasing appreciation by commanding officers of the rules of hygiene and sanitation. Where defects de-fects In the health system hsve developed, de-veloped, be says, the blame falls largely on the country's unpreparednea for such magnitude. Compared with an annual rate of 2.7 T I per thousand for the ten preceding f ! years, the rate rose during the first ! ; quarter of thle year to I I per thousand ; ner year. Thla. Or. Hraiated finda. waa ' duo to the unavoidable circumatancea brought about by the rapid expsnsiuo , of the navy and the unusual weather i i conditions In the first quarter of tho I year. The death rata for the second quarter waa only S I. During the year. 111 men were drowned, thirty died from expoaure, and forty-seven were killed by gunshot wounds. The war has aerved. Ir. Bralsted says, to rtear the reputationa of the men of the army and navy of the im-preoston im-preoston In the public mind that diseases dis-eases due to social evils were more prevalent In the service than outside. .Service doctors have contended all , along, he adds, that the ratio atood ' throe to one in favor of the trained I Sftrvlce men, nd atatistics compiled by i the provost marshal general in the 1 flmt draft aupport them. j |