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Show NO TYPHOID IN JHE ARMY Mot Deadly Cmno DUiwe Has Been Conquered. (FRANK W. LECLERE.) (Utah Public Health Association.) In our brief war with Spain In 1898, 315 American soldiers wero killed In battlo or died of wound"?, l tho bloody battlo of San Juan Hill only 114 Americans wero killed and 1951 wcro wounded. In shameful contrast was tho loss among our troops from disease. Among tho 107,000 enlisted officers nnd men In camps thero wcro about 20,000 cases of typhoid fever nlono nnd of those about 3,000 died. In Camp Chicka-mauga Chicka-mauga thero wero reported 99CO cases of typhoid and 713 deaths from that cause. Not a singlo camp escaped. es-caped. Dlsenso claimed about ton times as many victims as Spanish gunq nnd moro than eighty per cent of all theso deaths wero duo to typhoid ty-phoid fever. In England's war with tho Boers In 1900 thero wero more than 20,000 cases of typhoid among tho British troops In South Africa. During tho first two years of tho present war thero wero only 13(55 cases of typhoid among tho far greater number of British troops in Franco and Belgium. Bel-gium. In marked contrast to tho frightful fright-ful waste of lifo in tho Spanish-American Spanish-American war days is tho record for tho United States army during tho 'last few years. "In 1913 tho army had only two cases of typhoid In tho enlisted force of over 80,000 men." Ono of theso was among our troops In China. "In six years, 1909 to 1914, thero was only ono death from i typhoid In tho United States army, i whllo tho rato in tho country at largo i averaged over 16.5 per hundred , thousand." Last year thero was not a slnclo caso of typhoid in tho army. Thl3 gratifying improvement in tho health and fighting efficiency of our troopi Is duo to improved camp sanitation, sani-tation, to better medical caro and Instruction In-struction of tho men and to prevent- Ivo Inoculation or typhoid vaccination. vaccina-tion. Tho commission appointed to Investigate tho prevalence of typhoid In tho army In 1398 reported that It i wan duo chiefly to tho carolessness nnd Ignorance of tho off!c?r3 and men. Typhoid la an Intestinal disease, dis-ease, closely nl:In to dysentery nn 1 cholera. It occurs only In human bo-lngs bo-lngs and can bo acquired only by taking tak-ing into tho body through the mouth .somo of tho excreta from an Infected .perjen. "Water, food, fingers and flies' nro tho usual agencies of Its .spread. Guarding ncalnst theso four imcan3 of Infection will rcduco tho prt'Valonco of typhoid almost to the vanishing point In any commun'ty. .Inoculation has been proven by tho (experience of tho nrmy to bo a practically prac-tically certain preventive. Th ctat-1 commissioner cf health hai announced an-nounced that ho la proparcd to Inoculate In-oculate any-who apply. m m |