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Show HEALTH CONDITIONS : OF U. S. SOLDIERS. WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 Health) conditions among the American sol-j diers in France are shown in a table prepared at Surgeon General Gorgas today, based upon reports for the week nnriincr NTnvpmhnr 0 PnllnTt-mrr tr. 0 ... w. w..w ne jo . estimate of the percentage of cases ofi principal diseases per thousand men per year: Pneumonia 16.6: dysentery 2.0; malaria ma-laria 1.0; venereal disease 181,5; typhoid ty-phoid .0", para-typhoid .0; measles 21.7, meningitis 1.0; scarlet fever 1.9. The non-effective rate per thousand for November 12 which is the number of men per thousand who on the day ' reported were excused from duty for' any Indisposition whatever was 31.6. Total deaths for tho week ending November 9 was eight, as follows: Pneumonia 3; heart disease 1; j wounds received in action 3; from ac-cidental ac-cidental gunshot wounds 1. |