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Show GREAT ARMY OF I DDCTORSENLIST Twenty Thousand Physicians and Surgeons and 12,000 Nurses Enrolled 100,000 Enlisted. NEW YORK. June 5. More than 2f,ft0ft physicians and surgeons and 1 12,000 nurses have enrolled in the ! American army and the enlisted per-i sonnel has been built up to 100,000 men declared Surgeon General William C Gorgas. reviewing the work of the medical department in the first fourteen four-teen months of the war in an address! here today In addition, he declared, the United i States has contributed 1500 doctors to the British service, 600 of whom went to the front immediately after this country became a belligerent. The surgeon general described the extended scientific research of the department de-partment preparatory lo puttinc into practice preventive measures which ho declared will reduce below 20 per cent the number of deaths and inca- pacltations in the service through disease. dis-ease. The loss of effectives through disease dis-ease in the American army to date has been 9 per cent the surgeon general asserted. This inevitably would be increased in-creased as more troops are transported transport-ed to Europe and undergo the hardships hard-ships of trench life and active fighting, fight-ing, he said, but the indifference which permuted devastating epidemics in former war6 has given way to scientific scien-tific preparations to forestall such losses. Dr. Gorgas declared that the "waste" of medical officers and men In the war has exceeded that of any other organization organi-zation of the American army in pro-j portion. no |