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Show d Up to Dec. 1, Army Camps in U. S. Had 338,257 Cases. LARGE DEATH ROLL : Malady Claims More Hian Seventy Per Cent s of Total of DdatT " WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 An of- I nciai summary oi me results oi the Influenza epidemic in army J camps and military centers in the United States, made public today, I shows that there were 338,257 cases of the disease up to Decern -j ber 1, with approximately 17,000 deaths. ! Because deaths resulting from I influenza and pneumonia were not I separately .grouped, only approximate approxi-mate figures were given for those due to the epidemic. From September Sep-tember 13 the date of the outbreak out-break to December 1, 694 deaths from all other causes were reported report-ed by military stations in the United States. - CHICAGO, Dec. 10 Ninety per cent of the deaths from influenza and pneumonia pneu-monia are preventable when, a properly prop-erly prepared vaccine is used, according accord-ing to an address by Dr. E. C. Rose-now, Rose-now, of Rochester, Minn., before the annual meeting of the American Pub-' Pub-' lie Herilth association. burgeon -uonerai ume, neau ol tne United States Public Health service, also a speaker at tho conference, said that nearly 350,000 deaths occurred among civilians from September 1, 1918 to December 1, 191S from influenza influ-enza and pneumonia. He had no figures fig-ures on the epidemic in the army camps. Dr. Hosenow read figures on the re- j suits of inoculations around Roches-) ter, showing that after the third inoculation inoc-ulation there were nine cases of Influenza In-fluenza per thousand against 220 per thousand among the un-inoculated and one and eight -tenths cases per thousand thou-sand of pneumonia against fourteen j per thousand against those not inoculated. inocu-lated. Over twenty thousand persons were given the three Inoculations and their cases were compared with 61,000 not given the treatment. The daeths from influenza and pneumonia among 'those inoculated were one-tenth those among the uninoculated, Dr. Rosenow I showed. j Surgeon-General Blue came to arouse the health officials attending to a realization of the problem confronting confront-ing communities when the armies are I demobilized. I "The conditions after the war with demobilization of troops and resump-1 tion of emigration from areas In which sanitation has been necessarily neglected, neg-lected, constitute a situation of far greater menace to the health of the I nation than has previously existed,"! Surgeon -General Blue said. j nn i |
