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Show LOSSES DOWN TO MINIMUM Warfare Mortality Statistics Should Give Comfort to Those With Loved Ones at the Front. Great as the danger and large as the losses in the aggregate, the individual indi-vidual soldier has plenty of chances of coming out of the war unscuthed, or at least not badly injured. Based on the mortality statistics of the allied armies, a soldier's chances are as follows: Twenty-nine chances of coming home to one chance of being killed. Forty-nine chances of recovering from wounds to one chance of dying from tliein. One chance in ."00 of losing a limb. Will live live years longer because of physical training, is freer from disease dis-ease in the army than in civil life, and has better medical care at the front than at home. In other wars from 10 to 15 men died from disease to one from bullets; in this war one man dies from disease dis-ease to every ten from bullets. For those of our fighting men who do not escape scathless, the government govern-ment under the soldier and sailor insurance in-surance law gives protection to the wounded and their dependents and to the families and dependents of those who make the supreme sacrifice for their country. |