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Show I TYPHOID IN J THE ARMY w M Fight Against the W Disease Being Won l by Vaccination t , it : Washington, D. C, Feb. II. So ; striking have been the benefits al-f al-f ready realized by the regular army '.' through the adoption of anti-typhoid Lv vaccination that, thiough General J i Weaver, In charge of the militia di-f di-f jrislon, the general staff has addressed la circular to the organized militia, ;1 evidently with the purpose of prepar-i'lng prepar-i'lng guardsmen for such vaccination in ' 'the future. , , The report is based upon a report i by Lieutenant Georgo 13. Foster of the medlcnl corps, which contains f startling figures illustrative of the j havoc wrought by typhoid in armies. It is shown that In the short Span-I Span-I Ish-American campaign, there occurred 7 20.73S enses of typhoid among 107.073 men, with 1.5S0 deaths. During the f'r Franco-Prussian war the Germans had ' 73,930 cases, with S.7S9 deaths. i Surgeon Foster states that 3 per M cent of the persons recovering from I typhoid continue to excrete typhoid ft baccill capable of infecting others. k About one-seventh of the regular army :i has now been vaccinated and it is I1 pointed out. that if It were required m that all new recruits and rc-enlist- ments be vaccinated, the regular army would be Immune to typhoid in three 1 years. With no serious results following over 31,000 Inoculations in the army, , the procedure Is regarded as absolutely absolute-ly safe. The protective vaccine is pre- j , pared at the United States army med-1 ical school In this city. |