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Show uu GREAT LAKES CAMP HEALTHY PLACE CHICAGO, May 31. The Great Lakes training station is one of. tho healthiest communities in tho world, Dr. Frank Billings, chairman of tho hoalth arid sanitation committee of tho Illinois state council for defense announced today after a tour of inspection inspec-tion of tho camp. Loss than one-half of ono per cent of the sailors who havo passed through tho station havo been affected by spinal spin-al meningitis, it was found. At no time has thero been a case of typhoid fover in tho camp. Scarlet fever and measles have visited tho camp, but were quickly stopped and proved to havo been cases which wero brought In from outside. |