Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-21
LESS TYPHOID AT WAR
 FRONT THAN MEASLES.
Due to Sanitary Regulations of British
 Medical Men.

London, April 2o.-''There is less typhoid at the front today than there !s measles" according to Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, head of the Labrador medical missions. who has been for three months with the Harvard surgical unit and who is now returning to his work in Labrador He is unboundedly en- thusiastic about the work of the Brit Ssh medical men at the front
 Look at typhoid he remarked. Heretofore whole armies have been decimated by it When the English took over the trenches west of Ypres, where typhoid was epidemic in the vil- ,ages, the allies had already 5000 cases CI this disease. Twenty-six thousand i5elgians had to be inoculated, and this was supplemented by the British Tommy playing Hercules in cleaning Up this new Augean stable. But now typhoid is so small a factor that If a sIngle case occurs anywhere in four armies 1t is known the same night at l headquarters, and next day a rigid | local inquiry is held as to the cause.
 The sanitary service of all the towns and villages near the line has been taken over by the army med | Ical corps. Sewers and drains have beer put in order. garbage and filth disposed of at the least possible cost At certain places near the line one sees series of furnaces all made | from old tins filled with clay. having air spaces between, which once lighted requires next 10 do attention, but are eternally doing their work, like mod | ern Valleys of Hinnom.
 | Water supplies are all the time be- | ing tested and retested by the ambu- lance laboratories One sees every where the trail of their work in labels hanging to melancholy looking taps I such as "Tf.is water is not to be used until chlorinated.'
 | "FetantIs. a most terrible and fatal danger of mud associated with wounds | is being met with inoculation so soon after the event that it has become an almost negligible factor in war mor-
 tality.
 Trench feet at first disabled thou
 sands of our soldiers. Today it is nc
 cases Is now sent down by the medi-
 cal officer in the trench with an apol-
 ogy and an explanation, as if 1t were a
 mIsdemeanor
 "one sees criticimsm on the one hand
 that operations are entrusted to in- competent hands. and on the other that
 extravagant salaries are paid for il.
 lustrious names. Neither of thes, | statements has any truth in it. Unf-
 surgeons are remorselessly eliminated
 as soon as recognized. and the army has not paid more than the rank en.
 titles him to any surgeon. Yet theJ
 have permanently in France men whosI
 skill brings them in the comfort o
 their homes ten times the money fol which they are serving their country
 ITO us the team work of these hos.
 pital units, each with its expert ir
 various lines. the pathologists. the x.
 lay men, the diagnosticians, the thera. peutfsts, the operating surgeons. ant
 the commanding executive medical of ficers, suggest an ideal model for tn,
 future in civil life. The splendid den,
 tai and eye clinics are among the bes evidences of the progress of arm, medical work. Hundreds of cases O minor eye troubles are corrected whicl | would never have been discovered bu ? for the war. In spite of the strain O [ var the workers have isolated nev } diseases. such as trench fever an, trench nephritis-the first step towar l their cure.
 "A casualty clearing station to rh 1 ordinary mind suggests only a sham ! bles of shattered humanity, ami which belated medical officers, labor { . give temporary relief until the victir 5 can obtain treatment at a base hospI tai. The real casualty clearing static r would surprise the unenlightened wis s itor as much as the large butterh { | emerging from a chrysalis would
 child In old factories. schools, or 1 = huts, adapted operating rooms. we