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Show COSTING MANY LIVES. PHILIPPINE WAR COSTING 74 LIVES PER MONTH. War Department Denies Keports Sent Ont as Eiajt Keratetl and Declares the Death Kate From June 1, 18US, to February 17, 1UC.O, Was LSIS. War department officials deny re-, cently published statements that General Gen-eral Otis' campaign is costing upwards of 1,000 men ever' month. According to the official records since the occupation, occupa-tion, June 1. 1SSS. to February 17, l'JOO, the actual mortality in the array in the Philippines was sixty-five officers and 1,460 men, a total of 1,523, or at the rate of seventy-four deaths a month. More details are contained in the report of Colonel Woodhull, chief surgeon. sur-geon. His report, however, does not extend beyond the end of the last calendar cal-endar year. It shows that up to December Dec-ember 1, 1SH0, the total number of deaths were fiftj-'eight officers and 1,263 men. Of this number forty-two officers and 570 'men died by violence, and sixteen officers and 093 men died of disease. Most of the deaths by violence vio-lence occurred in battle. There were, however, 137 deaths from violence outside out-side of actual hostilities. It is a singular singu-lar fact that more than one-half of the latter class were caused by drowning. The total number of wounded without fatal results during the period covered by the report was 1,767. |