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Show J' ARMY CAMPS HEALTH RESORTS " . " "f k Of all those who are working to win the war and nearly everybody is so engaged there are none who have done more effective service than the doctors. The new methods to prevent typhoid fever and tetanus have saved thousands of lives, but the greatest work of all has been done by the sanitarians, who have turned army camps from what were in previous wars veritable plague spots into genuine health resorts. General Gorgas says that the combined health reports from overseas forces and from camps and cantonments in this country show that the health records re-cords of American troops have never before been surpassed, so low is the death" rate. The combined hospital death rate of forces here and overseas over-seas is 1.9 per thousand while the rate for. men of the same age in civil life is C.7. Theso figures were based on a total of over 2 000,000 men. The death rate for the Mexican war was 100 per thousand men, civil war 40 per thousand men,' and the Spanish-Americw Spanish-Americw war 25 per thousand men. These figures will bring front relief to the mothers and other relatives who always have a dread of sickness and death for their sons and husbands in army hospitals. They can also be encouraged bv the thought that the army hospitals now have the best of trained nurses and are equal to any others anywhere. . |