Show 1 t CONDITIONS AT i T C GOOD OD I Is Rr REPORT T General Pershing shing Declares That Sick Rate Is Unusually Unusually Un Un- usually Low By Associated Press Preas WASHINGTON ASHI Feb 21 Health Health conditions at Brest France general general genera camp conditions and the method o of handling troops troop through that camp I have received high praise from from- at who ho inspected since the first formative formative forma forma- tive tl day dar General Pershing reporter today to 10 Ui the war department The Ther i r message said General Pershing himself him him- I self General Starboard his chief UI l staff the chief surgeon and the InI In- In I general of ot the A. A E. E I. I F. F h hI hac ht I all personally inspected the camp during dur duro log ing the last month Conditions at at the camp have ha beet described as terrible in published reports and by witnesses before coli- coli gressional committees Tables pt pf hospital rates rales were Included in eluded in General Pershing's rep report rt The dall dally daily admission rate per IdOl O men for troops in Brest and for tor the first nineteen da days s 's of ot February I ary try was The similar figure gure I November ember was for December 1 II and for January Januar I The sick rate is unu unusually low lo General Pershing said an and is il i direct measure of ot the sanitary situation situa I t tion at that place c j I rates for tor the whole American ex ex- exI expeditionary I pc forces not counting mei mel I wounded in ht action I. I i 19 as follows I For November ember 2 22 for December t 2 14 for January Januar The dall daily average a death eath rate pet per petI 1000 I men for troops at Brest rest antI ant anu vicinity Is shown as follows I November GJ December 08 J Jani Jan Jan- i uary February to date I More than men enteric i I France via Brest the cable states and more than left Brest Jest I Total deaths among all these tr transients Iran tran- 11 l an and among thc the permanent gar ar I I for far November ember 12 12 1917 to F Febi Fob Feb b bi i 7 7 1919 were IvEre 1311 Deaths ot or II III I incoming boats or 91 by 11 the time pa va dents reached hospitals at Brest 2191 of these 1817 J burials occurred I l whop Influenza and pneumonia cases arriving on transports from the United States an and anere were ere In no noVa way wa 10 due to health conditions existing at al alI atI Brest I |