Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-01-27
SMALL DEATH RATE AMONG
IOWA TROOPS ON BORDER
II CONSIDERED REMARKABLE.
SPEAKS WELL FOR
SANITARY REGULATIONS
Four Of Deaths Among Iowa Troops
Caused by Drowning - Two Acct
dentalIy Shot and One Killed in Line
Of Duty-one Death From Disease
and No Typhoid Fever.

Des Moines, Jan. 27.--Within few
weeks every unit of the Iowa Natlona!
Guard will be home and a service OF
over half a year on the Mexican border
concluded. The mobilization OF i,sso
officers and men for so extended a Pc
Rod probably establishes a record in
one respect Not a single death re-
suited from illness. Eight deaths TOOK
place in the Iowa contingent-seVen
accidental. The one natural death was
that of an officer who expired Of heart
rouble while en- route home on the
train.
Eight Lost Their Lives.
The eight Iowans who terminated
their lives on the border while in the
service Of the federal government are
Lieut.. Henry Heinrichsen. Battery A,
Clinton Died at Harrington, Ten OF
heart failure.
Private William Peterson, Battery b.
Davenport. Drowned in the RIO
Grande.
Corp. William Henry Oliver, Com
pany B, Third Iowa. Gillespie, III.
Drowned in the Rio Grande.
Private James Rhodes, Company f.
Second Iowa. Fort Dodge. Drowned IN
irrigation canal at Naranjos ranch.
Sergt. William n Meyers. Company
A, First Iowa, Dubuque. Drowned N
a lake at Brulay ranch
Private Henry c. Wright Company
d. Third Iowa, Centerville. AccidentaI-
" killed while cleaning rifle in camp
at Brownsville, Tex.
Private Charles A. Abbott Troop ID
Iowa cavalry, West Branch. Killed
while acting as military police at East
Donna, Tex.
Private Arthur King. Troop D. Iowa
cavalry. Downey. Died from effects OF
wound received IN accidental discharge
of rifle at Donna, Tex.
A Sanitary Camp.
Military men familiar with the usual
mortality Of armies assert that only
the most rigid sanitation in the con-
centration camp at Brownsville cou!a
so hold down the mortality rolls. Every
Iowan returning from the border Will
verify General Funstons statement
made after an inspection Of the Iowa
brigade. THE best camp in the world
was Fighting Fred's' comment. That
it did not merit such praise during the
first week Of it's occupancy the guards
men who turned the wilderness or
mesquite and cactus into park can
attest Work, heavily underlined ac-
complshed the Transformation.
While the medical department was
somewhat handicapped during the first
few months of the mobilization by lack
of supplies, the dearth of drugs did not
hor c,,ffarir0 TnSnerrlOn OF
the food and drink of the Iowa SOL
diers was most rigid. Refuse was
treated in way which if followed
during the Spanish American war
would have saved hundreds Of lives
sacrificed to the negligent handling OF
filth. An effort to eliminate any mat
ter upon which a fly could feed was
persistently followed. The extraordl-
nary ability of the fly as disease
carrier was impressed upon the men
all times.
No Typhoid, Either.
Typhoid fever in former campaigns
more destructive than machine guns
was absent The immunization by the
injection of serum rendered every
guardsna proof against this disease.
Malaria was present in the Iowa camp
during the early fall. Probably a num-
dred men were afflicted. The fever was
extremely mild and few days treat
ment in the base hospital usually sui
feed.
The Iowa troops are fortunate IN
xi.Y uf their winter stay in one re-
spect-that is, that they are located
in Brownsville. Owing to the mild
winter of that latitude pneumonia IS
absent. West of FL Paso in the hlgh
attitudes Of New Mexico this scourge
Of winter has numbered many VIC
inns. Alabama and Arkansas resi-
meuts have suffered particularly.