The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-23
|fIIB ROLLS COMPARED.
~suP uogTALsTY ~ WAR WITH
SPAIN Less THAN N IssI-65-
s~t~r~sssag Comparative Report
p~rrenfag~s Are 1871 and I5-:l

WARRINGTON. s0s. @---t.oG Csaris=
eu..xa. Gepst1 surge N general " The army.
ss 4. -l44.assg.s issss8s5n ~ me sargeDa
xp-.rzj 81 4n.els BE- says.
~sa reEsy "a zasr Inquiry. can state
sh,g he ksckgezz and mortality during the
vsy w.sh spain wzs aoz relatively so great
- ss4s gAica our volunteer troops suffer
| - e..wzrg IRE elgA .aF \ comparison Ss
- f,ssssx recorded 81 TING nedlcaf officers
4 ,jsssse days With the deaths recorded
- ~ medal ofiieers OF tine present time
xtxs< overwhelming testimony 70 the ef-
IT. taat any differences discovered Ia the
ssfcsnsage # deaths fran battle caEaa.-
rs ard from diseases are Rot due TO the
srsxs prevalence and fatality ot disease in
- r4sexsg strsgsIe. bsT to the number os
angular Aattstielts Of the civil war
..9rgsEasng with July. ISL. when NE had
uasl.raI reports from regiments aggregat-
~ only lis naer, ard including August,
s4s.ssrhar. Oetoiesr and November. I'VE
-,aayas. He fnd recorded a Joss BY death
4 zsss men IL tie rsp5rtg sent Ia by med
/ sxf osreers. from an average strength
1.rsss..s O. ~ ss9 men. or 1874 deaths out
AZ every thousand men during the period
~ 6ys months More deaths occurred
ltkaa wers reg0-ted for some surgeons
A.sas6 10 seEa reports. bat the probabilities
are shst had toe missing reports been
Jersh s0minE the deaths would have con-
Ifaae. 10 Aava the same proportion TO the
Inpof1e5 slfengsh-
| sfa Ar-il. isss, President Mckinley cali
Id fer L. 90 men aai Later for 1909.
lshiea, wIgh an Increase IN the regular
gmy ard tho immune and ether special
kgx.u.srts made 4 total OF over 20 ea men
tssanIag With May. ISIS. for which moaih
b. Ease medical reports IN the ofsic.s az
b. surgeon general Of the army from
kgimerts aggregatsng iSi.ss, men. and in
s3.ag jgrs July. August and September.
h. fna 1n file lass BY death ~ oniy
liz men reported BY medical officers IN
T. average strength of 81 isx. or about
tsysn deaths oigt % every thousand men
tsrgng tfi2t period az FIVE months. II r.
csEs had come in from The whole ssaes,
e nEssber OF deaths would probably have
amounted 10 2.as9.
Y According. then. 20 the testimony OF
tFery medical officer VINO has placed him
Ses an record then ard now. we lost in
1Aa fve months Of the war with Susin
Q men cut OF every thousand reported
kpssnf 5y medical officers serving with
tzn, and In The FIRST five months Of the
y y Of the rebellion 1871 out II every
t1ossaad msu similarly reported present
RS i interesting. bar Il Is still more 50,
L xe look Atiie more into the details
y these aggres.
During ne month ef May last the DEATH
he was low. .4s: II was some what higher
i July -. or the equivalent Of an annual
t4ash rate % s.s psr thousand In July
/ fase 60 Els for the mouth. or the equiFa-
tsi o. annual rate % sS.s per tfasf~
BAL In August, owing 10 the rapid
head Of typhoid fever III the camps and
j the eFoken-dowu condition or Gen
BATTER corps. Il reached as. equal To an
lzsaal rate % 1896. sasa AZ Was common
otter before the era of municipal ~auita-
laa
| The war department. Immediately put
kzs ts energies To remedy this condition
j snzi.s. ard with such efficacy that the
tssh rate Ia September fell TO si5 II