Show IN GOOD HEALTH LONDON OO Feb Fob 10 lit In In reference to toc c exaggerated reports of or heavy losses from disease amon among the Canadian troops encamped encamped encamped en en- camped d on Salisbury plain tho the war of office of- of flee fice toda today issued a statement to tho the effect ef ot- teet that only five f Canadians have died In this camp romp and that tho the total loss 1055 from meningitis ba has been twenty four men out of or forty cases reported It had been beets reported that thaL an entire Canadian battalion wa was suffering from meningitis and the thc Inference h had been drawn that the epidemic was due duc to bad camp conditions According to tho the war office however the thc disease was brought with tho the contingent from rom Canada Canado In reference to tho the report that 70 per percent percent percent cent o of tho the Canadian horses are sufferIng suffering suffer suffer- ing Ins from mud fever tho the war office declares docIa do- do cIa dares clares res that only 10 per pCr cent of ot tho the Canadian hON hores arc and that t only a proportion of ot these had mud fever The rho war office also denies tho the report that thal It Jt had bad received applications to billet blUet tho the men mon Instead of ot leaving them In camp The World a London weekly publication tion eald said In a recent Issue that It was war reported that the Canadian contingent ent In England and out mit of a total of ot men had lost who died ns as a result orthell ot or their thell exposure to tho the weather wc A whole battalion was wat described ns os Buffering suffering from meningitis 70 TO per cent of ot the tho horses according to the tho World had mud fever ever and tho the artillery did not have sufficient animals to draw It Its ammunition ammunition I tion wagons wagon |