Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-12-01 | Page 20 | Surgeon General Reports Army Health

SURGEON GENERAL REPORTS ARMY HEALTH WASHINGTON Dec Doc 1 But l.-But But for deaths from tuberculosis and respIratory respiratory respiratory tory dise diseases ses contracted during the in influenza influenza influenza in- in epidemic of 1918 the arm army death rate for the last year would have been very low according to the annual report of Surgeon General Breland Ireland The medical corps during the year General Ireland said was engaged largely in physical reconstruction ot of sick and wounded of tho the great war At tho the beginning of the tho year there I were patients in the general and base hospitals and during the ithe year an additional cases were recel received d. d The end of ot the year on June 30 however how how- however ever saw sawall all except of these cases discharged leaving only nine of the thirty-one thirty wartime general hospitals in operation All the other hospitals had been discontinued The policy of the medical corps General General General Gen Gen- eral Ireland said was to to transfer patients patients patients pa pa- to hospitals near near- the homes of rel relatives tives and friends If requested but such was impractical in cases where I no sufficiently equipped institution was avaIL available