Show thorough work of japs one of the most unique and inter esting features of the japanese plan of campaign is the importance of the tasks assigned to the doctors maj louis I 1 hing stone seamon of the unit ed states army says in his recently published book the medical officer Is omnipresent you will find him in countless places where in an ameri can or british army he has no place he is as much at the front as in the rear he is with the screen of the scouts with his microscope and chemi cals testing and labeling wells so that the to follow shall drink no con laminated water when the scouts leach a town he immediately ansti atutes a thorough examination of its sanitary condition and it contagion or infection Is found he quarantines and places a g lard around the dangerous district notices are posted so that the approaching column is warned and no soldiers are billeted where danger exists microscopic blood tests are made in all bevar cases and bac ten experts fully equipped form part of the staff of every dl visional headquarters the medical officer also flies foraging parties and with the commissariat officers samples the va rious foods fruits and vegetables sold by he natives along the line of march long before the arrival of the army it the food Is tainted or the fruit Is overripe or the water requires boiling notice is posted to that effect and such is the respect and discipline of every soldier from the commanding officer to the file in the ranks that obedience to its orders is absolute the medical officer is also found in camp lecturing the man on sanitation and the hundred and one details of personal hygiene how to cook and to eat and when not to drink or to bathe even to the paring and cleans ing of the finger nails to prevent dan ger from bacteria long before the outbreak of hos tili ties he was with the advance agents of the army testing provisions that were being collected for the troops that were to follow As a con sequence of these precautions he is not found treating thousands of cases of intestinal diseases and other con faglon and fevers that follow improper subsistence and neglected sanitation diseases that have brought many campaigns to disastrous eions |