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Show '- 1 Soldiers to Move V v V I 1 f Washington, July 27. The health '- report bIiowh u surprisingly huge ntim- v ber of eases of sickriess, but army i i Bitrgone authorize tho statement thnt these figures are misleading in a certain j sense, and that the situation may not bo ! nearly so bad as they would necm to indicate. The slightest ailment of tho ' most temporary nature suffices to place t jv soldicra' name on tho sick report, i ' wliicli, in their present shape, would j . no', distinguish between such a case and n ' ono of mortal Illness. if ' Theintorenco iB that many of thebe i cases in Shnftor's camp are of trival i nature, but go to swell its grand total of ; f aick and woundid. Notwithstanding this mitigating fact, j f Secretary Alger :s going to remove tho Lf soldiers at the earliest opportunity to a 1 . more healthful clime. f. The surgeon-general, under tho direc- j p tion of tho Secretary, a few days ago in- f spected a tract of land adjoining Mon- i l tauk Toint, Long island, belonging to F the Long Island Railroad company, S whicji has been offered to ihe Go rern- j" , incntns suitable for n large encampment. I The tract is three miles square, conUiins Etf mi abundance of fresh water, a consider- I ablo hike, a hill ICO feet in height and ij many other sanitary advantages, inelud- fl. ing salt water bathing. ' j Tho necessary orders to equip this as ""'J 't . ." ' '--.i , a camping ground will go forward im-r im-r 'i'"'" & " "imcaiatoH'f and overy advantage will be fflfrth . " -nakeh'of the &eperienco "gained-m tho f$K, v. JsJ .1 formation of the great campSXaft |