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Show ONLY TWO CASES TYPHOID FEVER Army of 80,000 Gets Through 1913 With Remarkable Health Record. VACCINE IS EFFICIENT Navy Adopts Treatment Among 70,000 Jackies Only Seven Authentic Cases. Washington. D C, Dec 31 The army got through the year 1913 with only two cases of typhoid fever in the enlisted strength of more than R0.000 officers and men One was that of a man who had not been Ira munized with the typhoid vaccine and was believed to have contracted the fever before he enlisted the other case was among the troopB In China and though the man was immunized in 1911, the history of the case Is In doubt. The navv which adopted the vac cine later than the army and did not make its use at once compulsory, had among us fu.uuu Jackies only seven authentic cases of typhoid In thf year ending last June. Four of those were treated at a remote tropical sta tion where the vaccine had deteriorated. deterio-rated. Such is the wonderful record of the prophylactic treatment which has wiped out one scourge among the nation na-tion s defender- and which many medical med-ical officers believe has had something some-thing to do with decreasing the rate j of tuberculosis. oo |