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Show DEATHS FEW IN THE ARMY. Fatalities from Battle Exceed Those Dead of Disease. Washington. Battle death rates' in the American army during the great war exceeded the death rates from disease, General March announced February 15 in making public statistics statis-tics prepared by the general staff. In past wars disease killed many more men than lost their lives under fire. The battle death rate for the entire American army in this war was twenty per thousand per year. In the expeditionary expedi-tionary forces it was' fifty-seven per thousand per year. The disease death rate was seventeen per thousand per year in the expeditionary forces and sixteen in the army at home. |