Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-27

The examinations for entrance TO the
army medical school in washington have
been completed and II Is found that sixty
three candidates for admission have been
sussesstul and will undertake their school
duties on October when the school be-
gins the term Of 1slo-li. This Is the largest
class 20 be enrolled at the army medical
I school, last years class Of fifty-elght men
being the previous record. This fills all
but thirteen vacancies in the corps.
The assistant comptroller of the treasury
has decided that he went beyond the limits
OF the law when he decided that quar-
ters might lawfully be hired at the ex-
pense OF the government for contract sur
geons or contract dental surgeons. The
new ruling follows one Of July Is, 1910, in
which IL was held that light and heat could
not be furnished contract dental surgeons
at public expense. The contract surgeons
or contract dental surgeons are held en-
| titled TO only what is specified in their
contracts and hereafter payments for hire
| OF quarters for them will not be allowed
The question OF their occupancy OF public
quarters belonging to the United States
was not before the assistant comptroller
when ne rendered this decision.
The articles OF equipment recommended
by the infantry equipment board and re-
ferred to the cavalry equipment board as
susceptible of use by both the foot and
mounted soldier will be made the subject
OF a special report by the. latter board at an
early day. These articles are the hat and
hat-band. the neckerchlef the overcoat and
pea Jacket, the sweater recommended TO be
worn on come occasions in the field in
place of the service coat, the sheiter-tent,
poles and pins, and the poncho. When the
report OF the cavalry board on these ar
ticles is received il will be submitted to the
secretary Of war. in due course, together
with other matters vet to be disposed of
In connection with the report OF the in
fantry. Among the questions are the ex-
tent OF issue of the dispatch-case, the shirt
insignia and the abolition OF the emergency
ration. II is intended that all these mat
ters shall be brought before the secretary
at the same time. Those articles Of the new
infantry equipment being supplied by the
ordnance department are in course of
manufacture at the Rock Island arsenal or
under contract with that department Or
ders for S,oOo sets Of the equipment have
been placed. Experiments are being con-
Quoted to determine the most satisfactory
way of manufacturing the seamless alumni
OF welding the metal in which much diff
ficuity Is encountered
BY far the most interesting and instruc-
tive feature OF the typhoid situation al
Washington Barracks is the demonstra ton
II affords OF the real value Of antI-ty.
phoid vaccination. On June IL, ten days
prior TO leaving washington for the Get
tysburg maneuvers, nlnety-two members
Of company A, first battalion Of engineers
received the first incubation Of anti-ty.
phoid vaccine. On July fifty-two OF these
men received the second incubation, and
on July Is. fifty-one OF these received the
third incubation. OF the remaining TWEEN
ty-six men of the command, a few refused
vaccination and others were on detached
service or temporarily absent from the post
when the first preventive incubation was
given on June H. Two OF the twenty six
uninocuated men gave history of having
had typhoid fever and by virtue of that
fact, may be considered immune This
! leaves "a men, of the total strength OF III
men. who had not acquired an immunity tc
! typhoid fever by either preventive inocuIa.
. ton or a previous attack OF the disease
" On August II, five days after the troops
returned from Gettysburg, two of the un
inocuated men developed typhoid fever
and, between August % and August y, f0u
E secondary cases occurred also among thu
: unvaccinated, Not a single case occurred
D among those who had received the proven
q tive incubation. while 25 per cent Of tn,
? non-immune, living under exactly the sam
e conditions, succumbed to infection. Sucl
= figures as these argue most eloquently 70
h compulsory vaccination in the military ser
h vice.
The officers Of the general staff VIII
have been engaged for more than a yea
in an extensive revision of the infantr,
drill regulations. expect TO have a tentativ
= draft ready for issue and trial TO a limitet
extent by November l. The revision wa
practically completed last March, at whicl
Q time Il become evident that the adoption
= OF the new equipment for the foot soldie
e would necessitate further changes to recon
It Gle to the new equipment those paragraph
y which pertained to the old equipment. Thes
d changes have now been made. The regula
y tons will probably be issued to at leas
8 two regiments OF infantry OF the regula
8 army and one regiment OF militia for tria
i for about six months Criticisms and sug
d Restions will be invited from the officer