Show WEEKLY HEALTH TALKS NO a TYPHOID IN THE ARMY alot U it deadly disc discs se has been conquered by rank R ank W leclere utah public health association or ar brief war with spain in american Ame soldiers sol diere were battle or r died of wounds Is u I 1 bloody battle of san juan ily americans were killed in shame 1 were wounded was the loss among our from disease among the enlisted officers and men there were about P ps s f typhoid and death from single camp es ise e not a claimed about ten 3 many victims as spanish id a more thin 80 per cent lent of ie e deaths were due to typhoid ignas g juds war with the boers ahert were more thin f among the british p a south africa dunnig the years of the present war ere 1365 1305 cass of ty nong mong the far greater number sh h troops in france and bel bol i aked irked contrast ast to the fright ste te of life in the spanish ia diio is the record for or led hed states army during the years in 1913 1013 the army two cases of typhoid in th the e joice oice of over men these was among our troops f in six years 1909 1901 to 1914 there was only one death from typhoid in the united army while the rate in the culi country at larce large vr aged over per hundred tholand fi tI omand OLAnd last list year there was not a single u cast of typhoid in the army this gratifying improvement ImproTe ment in the health and fighting efficiency of ow troops is due to improved camp sanit it lor to better medical care and in tru tn t f the men and to vre preventive inoculation or typhoid vaccination ci the commission oi ox appointed to investigate the prevalence of typhoid in the army in 1897 7 reported that it was due chiefly to the carelessness and ignorant ignorance e of the officers and men typhoid is an intestinal d sease closely akin to dysentery and cholera it occurs only in human beings and can be acquired only by taking into the body through the mouth some of the excreta aiom an infected person water food fingers and flies ae the most usual agencies agencies gen cies of its spread guarding against these four means of infection will wid reduce the prevalence of typhoid almost to the vanishing point in an community inosculation has been proven by the experience of the army to be a practically certain preventive ven tive the state commissioner commisa ioner of health has announced that he Is pie pared to inoculate any who apply |