Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-02-28
HURRAh FOR FIRST MINNESOTA
Coming Back In tho Best Possible
Condition with Commentator
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Coming Back In the Best Possible
Condition with Commentator
Of Its Superior Officers.
Col. e. S. Luce sends the Willmar
Tribune the following with request
that we publish same:
HQ. 18TH PROVISIONAL DIVISION
OFFICE OF DIVISION SURGEON
Camp Wilson, Texas
January %, 1917.
From: The Division Surgeon, Hq. 18th
Provisional Division,
To: The Commanding Officer, LIST
Minnesota Infantry. (Thru Com
handing General, 18TH Provisional
Division.)
Subject: Health and Physical Condi.
ton Of Regiment.
ment has been ordered home for mus
ter out. 1t is pleasure to bring the
following facts to your attention.
2. While your regiment has been in
this camp, only some three weeks, its
record here and its past statistical
charts forwarded from Llano Grande,
show that it's health conditions have
been very gratifying. It has not had
a case of typhoid fever. and this Of
flee is informed that it has not had a
death from either disease or injury.
The sick rate has not been high, and
the admissions to sick report have
largely been due to disabilities of a
trivial nature or surgical character.
3. It is now more than seven months
since the militia troops were called
out, during which time they have
been continuously exposed to field con-
ditions. Comparison of such health
conditions as yours with those for the
average organization during the first
seven months the declaration of war
against Spain in 1898 is invited:
4. In my opinion, your men, individ-
ually and collectively, have enjoyed
far better health during their military
service than If they had remained in
civil life at home. They are return
ing to their State in far better physi-
cal condition than when they left it.
The border service has apparently not
injured any. On the contrary, it has
undoubtedly done much to prolong the
lives and promote the efficiency of
your men after they return home
Many of the lessons of self care learn
ed here will not be forgotten.
5. Good health in. the military SER
vice is the result of cooperation by
all concerned. You and your regimen
tai surgeon are especially entitled to
full share in the credit of taking
home a full regiment in sound health
Your organization has had no war SER
vice, and its border record must de-
pend on peace efficiency. There is no
more important factor in such effici-
ency than sound health.
6. It is suggested that you give
these facts all publicity through your
home papers and the Associated Press.
The public is entitled to have any of
it's remaining apprehensions about the
unhealthfulness of camp life allayed
You, your officers and your regiment
are also entitled to have it's excellent
health made a matter of public infor-
nation and record
(Signed) E. L. MUNsON,
It. Colonel, Medical Corps,
U. S. Army, Division Sur
Hq. 18th Provisional Division, Camp
Wilson, Fort Sam Houston, Texas,
January "a. 1917.
To Commanding Officer, 1st Mime
sofa Infantry.
The Commanding General concurs
heartily in these we'll deserved con-
gratulations to the LIST Minnesota In
fantry, on the fine showing it has
made in the matter of health condi-
tions, as we'll as in the recommends
tons herein contained. To the officers
Of the regiment particularly the medi-
cal officers, much Of the credit for
these conditions is due; but their ef-
forts would have been useless if the
enlisted men had not done their part
in the way Of careful obedience to all
sanitary regulations. This indicates a
gratifying condition of discipline, of
which the regiment has just cause to
be proud.
By Command of Brigadier General
Greene:
(Signed) CAMPBELL KING,
Captain, 7th Infantry,
Adjutant.