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Show HEALTH OF NAVY j : REPORTED GOOD I WASHINGTON. I iec 7 Mespite the influx of recruits, health condi- MM Hons In the navy during the last year j were good, Surgeon General Bralsted jsald In his annual report made public today. influenza was the only com- jmunicable disease which was unduly ' " " Admiral Bralsted said adding hi ni tube i ol sl h It - s on this E ' en not o er large hi n tak- sV en In consideration with replacement H of the duration-of-the-War enlist- IH .ments H The death rate of the navy, tho re- Port showed, was 5.90 per J.OOO in the last year while for the year 191$, with the llious inds of wartime enlistments, the death rate reached 18 47 per thou-sand. thou-sand. If pneumonia could have been eliminated, the report said, the death rati last year would have been only $4 per thousand The naval medical corps like other branches of tho service has suffered Trom the competition with private business and, the surgeon general said has not been able to counteract 'the re- HH action against military pursuits" In LL9 keeping us rolls filled. The year end- HH ed with 762 regular medical and re- aH serve officers. 193 officers holding fll .... .... ". in " ' 1 1 m aim i:t ioi - BSBSBSBJ mer pharmacists commissioned as WM I temporary assistant surgeons. As the tSM authorized strength Is i.2j:.. Wic exist- PH Ing vacancies number 570. Iftfn The denial corps likewise suffered WtiM losses from Its ranks, members of thi LSftT corps being unwilling to refuse allur- LssH ing prospect-, of greater remuneration in private life Ns a result. Ih- ,.01.,lS finished the y 1 1 with only two-third M of it? authorize. strength. V ' A shortage of specialists in the navv ed i establlshnn ol WM 1 11 8 " studli whii h th offi- l rs ,re enable, I to ;,ttend The B ;geon general however, saw no Imin -dlntc hope of bringing the staff of ssB specialists to the point he believed the i H navy required because of the constant alB resignation. He urged, therefore, that sH action be taken to make the profes-stonal profes-stonal work of the service more attrac- 1 |