The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-12
HEALTH Of HE ARMY
UNUsALLY GOOD LAST YEAR,
 SAYS sTERNBER0.
Admission Rate to Hospitals Dis cussed-Alcholism on the De- crease-The Yellow Fever
 Situation.

Washington, Oct 11.-Surgeon-General Sternbergs annual report to the Secre- tary Of War says the health of the army was was unusually ,nnn good during the calendar
 The admission rate to hospitals for all causes in the army, volunteers and reg ,s, ulars, with mean strength of 1oo3Ss in as compared with 2.f7S.os in the previous year: but during the year 1899 only 9,2S0 men out of a total of 10S,545 were sefv- ing in the Philippines. while during the thus serving. In the Philippine Islands, sion rate was 2.sI.Ss. as compared with 2.SsS.Ss in the previous year. this increase volunteers. the ratio for which rose from i.s59.21 to 2.761.7s. The regulars on the other hand, showed marked decrease in the ratio of emission m 1o of I, disease which the admissions for disease were caused by malarial levers and diarrhoeal dis eases. The deaths from all causes amounted to Ss:ao per thousand c as n. .f of previous year. Disease caused '2o.2e deaths. the principal cause being dysen- tery, which. with other intestinal dis eases, gave rate of sos. The rate from injury amounted to s.4s.
 The death rate in China was H:76 per thousand of strength, 3.62 from disease and 2414 from injury. ..
 From the close of the fiscal year, 1900 to the latest reports, the health of the troops in the Philippines has been stead fly improving.
 The health of the troops in Cuba during American occupation. nearly every city and town has had its sanitary conditions improved.
 Speaking of special diseases. General late years In the admissions for alcohol ism among the men of the regular army Is matter, for cof1gratulatfon. Military officers may be said to be unanimous In their opinion that this may be through the establishment of post exchanges or canteens at military posts. There Is less drunkenness among the troops in active service than in command doing garrison
 Reporting upon the study of yellow fe- yer by a board in Cuba, General Stern berg says: The results obtained were especially valuable, showing that the taxation to yellow fever. and that the mosquito serves as, an intermediate host for the parasites of this disease. Further experiments of a most interesting charac- ter demonstrated that yellow fever Is transmitted to non-immunes by the bite of mosquito that has previously fed on the blood of those sick with this disease; that yellow fever can also be produced by the subcutaneous injection of blood taken from the general circulation during the first and second days of the disease. that an~attack of yellow fever produced by the bite of a mosquito confers immu- nifty against the subsequent injection of infected blood: that yellow fever Is not conveyed by clothing, bedding or mer- chandise soiled by contact with those sick with the disease: that house may be said to be infected with yellow fever only when there are present in 1t mos quitos capable of conveying the parasite of the disease, and that the spread of yellow fever can be most effectually con- troiled by measures directed to the de- struction of mosquitos and the protection of the sick against the bites of these in- sects." .'.
 General Sternberg says the results of investigation are of far reaching impor- tance. as the surgeons are now in pos session of knowledge which enables them to StamD out yellow fever.