Show NO TYPHOID IN THE ARMY frank W leclere Lc Clere in our brief war with sp spat n in 1898 1891 american soldiers were killed in bittle battle or die det L of wounds in the bloody bat battle of san juan hill ony americans were killed and 1951 were wounded in shameful hame ful contrast was the loss among our troops from disease among the enlisted officers and men in camps there were about cases of typhoid fever alone and of these about died in camp chickamauga there were vere reported cases of typhoid and deaths from that cause not a single camp escaped disease claimed about ten times as many victims as spanish guns and more than eighty per cent of all these deaths were due to typhoid fever tn jn En glands war the boers in 1000 there were more man ilian cases of typhoid among the british troops in south africa during the first two years of the present war there were only 1365 cases of typhoid among the far greater number of british troops in france and belgium in marked contrast to the frightful waste of life in the spanish american war days is the record for the united states army during the last few years in 1913 the army has only two cases of typhoid in the enlisted force of over men one of these was among our troops in china in six years 1909 to 1914 there was was only one death from typhoid in the unit united d states army while the rate in the country at large averaged over per hundred thousand last year there was not a single aze case of typhoid in the army this gratifying improvement in the health and fighting fighting efficiency of our troops loiue to improved camp sanitation to better me medical cical care and instruction of the men and to preventive t inc inoculation c or typhoid va vaccination ei nation the commission appointed to investigate vesti gate the prevalence of typhoid in the army in 1898 reported that it was due chiefly to ahe the carelessness and ignorance igno rance ot the of officers acers and men typhoid cypho id is an intestinal di disease closely akin io to dyser dysentery tery and 1 nd cholera ch oera it occurs only i in n hrman beings and can be acquired only by taking into the body through the mouth pwe ile ci f the excreta from an infected verson person water food fingers and flies are the most usual 11 cliches cli cies of its spread guard ilir against aira inot thes four means of inac infection action 7 all n reduce the he prevalence of typhoid al almost most to the vanishing point in any community inoculation has been proven bya by the be experience of the army to be a practically certain preventive the state commissioner of health has announced th that at he is prepared to inoculate any who apply |