Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-24
PENNSYLVANIA MEN
MAKE HEALTH RECORD
Both Guardsmen and National
Army Recruits Keep Clear
of Hospitals
MEASLES A CAMP PEST
Southern Rockies Are Easy Victims Of
Disease They Escaped in
Childhood
WASHINGTON, Nov. -.

WAShiNtTcN, Nov. ~.
The health record Of the PENNSYLVANIA
troops in both the National Guard and the
Natona Army has been exceptionally good
No better showing of health has been made
BY the men from any other State either
In the number of men sick In quarters or
those confined to the hospitals The rate
Of sickness among the Pennsylvania youths
has been less than that of almost every
other State.
This was the statement made today by
Colonel +, p. Reynolds, enfef Of the sanl-
tary corps. United StXtes army, and his as.
sertions are bore out by the daily and
weekly reports made to the surgeon general
Of the ar.ny by the medical officers at the
varioua training camps
me Pennsylvania Natioua' Guard had
die best health record established by troops
OF any state during the week ended No.
vember II. the last period for which figures
are available at the surgeon generals Of
fee. During that week, out Of 2S,7i6 ma
tional guardsmen in camp only 467 new
eases were reported. In the same week the
New York National Guardsmen mace the
mex, best record with 3is new hospital cases
out of 81 .s9s guardsmen In camp.
At Camp Meade, Md. where the Pennsyl-
yania National Army men are in training
with selected men from New Jersey and
Maryland. there are 30 6S7 men. Out Of
these only 574 new cases of sickness were
reported during the week ended November
Ia very good record, the surgeon gem
eral said.
Measles has been the chief illness about
half the men in hospitals being sufferers
from that disease Especially IL this true
Of men from the South.
"The greater portion of the men from the
southern States at the training camps have
iyed all their lives in the country" said
Colonel Reynolds in discussing the matter
with the EVENING LEDGER correspondent
."There are very few large cities in the
South, and the population there is not so
,dense as in northern cities The children
There do not come into close touch with
other children to the extent they do in the
thckly populated northern cities.
consequently they do not suffer from
the so-called diseases OF childhood while
Young But almost all Of them get sick
with measles during their first weeks at
camp. But after they recover from the So
called childhood diseases their health is
usually very good. and having had the
benefit of outdoor life all their lives they
usually make strong, husky and healthy
soldiers The northern boys have lived in
close quarters with their fellows have rid
6en in trolley ears daily. gone to school
with thousands of other children and have
had the measles and ali the other childhood
diseases when young. so that getting into
the big army camps and being thrown into
close touch with thousands of other boys
has no Ill effect upon them
During the week ended November II
Camp Upton. y. " reported no new cases
of measles. neither did Camp Dix, y. j.
Camp pevenS. Mass. reported six Camp
Meade Md whore the Pennsylvania drafted
men are camped. had eleven, and Camp
Sherman. Ohio, five. In the same week
at the southern camps Of the National!
Army. where the southern boys are train
ing Camp jackson. Columbia, s c., reported
sS5 new cases Of measles; Camp pike,
Little Rock. Ark. Gil, and Camp Travis,
Fort Sam Houston. Texas, G9T.