The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1917-11-23
A WEEKLY REPORT
FROM CAMP ARAVS
PERSONAL MENTION OF SOLDIER
BOYS FROM sCuRRY AND
KENT COUNTIES.
oGlclal Report BY Lieut.. Mccalebi

Ouclal Report by Lieut.. Mccaleb;
No one knows better than Goner-
al Allen. commanding tho Goth diyis-
ion, National Army, 1t Camp Travis
that an efficient army Is an army
composed OF soldiers who are In good
health. Those who have sent mem
bers Of their respective families TO
compose this great division can have
no more comforting thought than
that everything that modern science
eternal vigilance and constant watch
fulnos can do Is being done TO keep
tN soldiers at Camp Travis strong in
body and IN the best Of health
In no line Of endeayor r. tina, AK
ION "eternol vigilance ia the price
OF liberty" applied with greater en-
orgy than at Camp Travis. The Goth
Division Is like Of a great big family
It's efficiency as a aghtlng unit is
Impaired by each soldier IN that COM
mand that IS sick. Not only to pro
vide the greatest possible efficiency.
but also to conserve tho bodies Of the
soldiers for the future Is one Of the
problems that has had tho thought
and attention Of some Of the foremost
minds In tnho medical world, for the
medical personnel now at Camp Trav
is composed Of physicians who
havo already earned their right to
speak wlthau,horlty upon matters OF
health. iiyglene and sanitation.
In fanny Of 10000 people there
is constant danger and an ever
spreading opportunity for the break
ing out and the spreading Of contag
ious diseases. Measles and humps,
concomItants OF childhood days make
q never ending fight to ind lodg
ment in camps. Mild cases Of both
these diseases have, as was expected
appeared at Camp Travis, But infect
ed units have been quarantlned,
stricken cases have been placed In lso
ated wards and the number Of these
cases has been held at much lower
minimum than would have been the
ease In any city OF the same popula-
ton as Camp Travis.
No allment Is given more careful
attention than the common cold, for
the common cold often furnishes a
splendid breeding ground for pneu-
monla Pneumonia has appeared In
this camp just like II has appeared
in other communities In this state.
Against no disease ls there waged n
more vlgllant war than against pneu-
nionla. A common cold is taken In
hand by the physicians when 1t lrst
appears. Those thus affected are not
passed from under observation Of
physicians unit II has been found
that the common cold is that and
nothing more.
That the energies expended tC
keep the soldiers at Camp Travis II
good health are worth while is at
tested by the fact that no commun
ity, no city in the south with 10000
population can point to such splendid
results as have been the fruit OF thl
care and attention. There are fewe
cases Of sickness at Camp Travis to
day than In any city In the state o
one-thlrd the population OF Cam
Travis. As the men are built II
physically and become hardened I
all things that affect their healt'
this sickness will be still further d.
creased, for at Camp Travis there
being wagod a fight that never end
and there Is being maintained a VII
lance that never flags to malntal
the highest health standard that mo
ern science and demonstrated metl
DDS can devise.