Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-04-30
TYPHOID AT FRONT CHECKED
Efficient Methods Of Army Medical
Corps Show Results in the
War Zone,
DREAD rETANUs IS WIPED OUT

Correspondence Of the Associated Press
LONDON, April N~There Ia lesa
typhoid Mt the front todny than there "
measles, according 10 Or Wllfred Gren-
fell. head of the Labrador Medical Mis-.
sons, who hns been Tor three months
with the Harvard surgical unit and who
II now returning % his work In Labra.
dor He IL undoubtedly enthusiastic
about the work o. the British medical
men at tho front
Look at typhoid. he remarked. Hero
tofore whole armies have been declmatod
by H. When the English took over the
trenches west Of Ypros. where typhoid
was endemic IN The villages, the Allies
had already 5000 cases Of this disease.
Tgenty-ax thousand BelRiuns had been
inoeculated. and this was supplemented
by The British Tommy playing Hercules
In clearing up this new Augoan stable.
But now typhoid Ia 10 small factor
that N single case occurs anywhere
IN four armies II IL known The same
night at headquarters. and next day q
rigid local inquiry IL held 0s to fho
cause.
The sanitary service Of al towns and
villages near the line has been taken
over by the army medical corps. sewers
and drains have been put IN order gar.
bage and fifth disposed Of a. the least
possible cost At certain places near the
line one sees series Of furnaces, al
made from old tins filled with clay hay-
Ing air spaces between, which once
lighted require next to no attention, but
are etornally doing their work, like mod
sn Valleys Of Iiinnom
water Thoroughly Tested.
Water supplies are All the time being
tested and retested by tho ambulance
laboratories One secs everywhere the
trail Of their work IN labels hanging 70
melancholy looking taps, such 90, This
water In not 10 DO used until chiorin-
ated."
Tetanus. o most terrible and fatal dan
ger Of mud associated with wounds. Ia
being met with inn0culatlon 30 soon after
the event that II has become AN almost
negligible factor IN war mortality
Trench feet NJ first disabled thousands
Of Our soldiers To-day II IL no longer
problem. batch Of such cases IA
now sent down by the medical officer IN
the trench with an apology and an ex-
PLANTATION. as II II were q misdcmeanor
"0ne sees crltielsm on the one hand
that operations are entrusted 10 lncompo-
tent hands. and on the other that ex
travagant salaries are paid FOR llluatrioua
names. Neither OF these statements has
any truth in f. Unfit surgeons arc re-
morselesaly eliminated M soon an recog-
nized, and the army has not paid more
than the rank entities him 20 any sur
geon. Yet they have permanently In
France men whose skin brings them IN
the comfort Of their homes ten times
the money for which they are serving
their country
To US. the team work Of these hos
pital units, each with its expert in var
ious lines. the Psychologists. the X.ray
men. the diagnosticians the therapeutics.
the operating surgeons. and the com
handing executive medical officers, sug.
geat an ideal model FOR the future in
eivil life The splendid dental and eye
clinics are among the best evidences OF
the progress Of army medical work Hun
dreds OF eases Of minor eve troubles are
corrected which would never have been
discovered but for the war, In spite Of
the strain ~ war the workcra have iso.
lated new diseases such az trench fever
and trench nephrius-tho first step
toward their cure .#.M.