The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-30

Medical Corps Preparedness Respon-
 sible for Splendid Condition of Men Fever That Caused 80 Per Cent.
 of Deaths In SpanisIl-American War
 No Longer a Menace-Credit Due
 Present Administration
 In the most recent report received by the Surgeon General of the Army from General Pershing concerning the health conditions of the American Expeditionary Forces appeared tbe statement that there is not 8 single case of typhoid or paratyphoid among the thousands of American soldiers now in France.
 Reports for a similar period from the various camps and cantonments, where more than a million men have been in training in the United States for two or more months, revealed only seven cases of typhoid and one case of paratyphoid.
 The official medical records of the Spanish merican War disclose that "every regiment in the United States service in 1898 developed typhoid fever" More than ninety per cent of the volunteer regiments assembled in the Spanish War developed ty- phoid fever, these same records show, within eight weeks after being gathered in the state encampments. Typhoid fever not only appeared in every regiment in the service in 1898 but it became epidemic both in the small encampments of not more than one regiment, and in the larger ones consisting of more than one corps. Typhoid fever became cpl demic in camps then located in the northern as well as those located in the southern states.
 The statement has been frequently and truthful1y made both in and out OF Congress that more men died from disease during the few months of the Spanish-Amerfcan War and the sub- sequent fighting in the Philippines than were killed by enemy bullets. More than so per cent. of the total deaths resulted from typhoid. ushtvauaVHqvHsv. .inui mthwC Thorough Preparedness. During the nineteen years that have intervened since our little brush | with Spain, it is true, medical science has made greata progress. It is equal l ly true-despite the charges of un- DT0pdT0Ou0SS-tll Lll0 11Co1SdA SOl ps of the army as now constituted, un- | der the leadership of Surgeon Gen. l eral Gorgas, was ready to safeguard 1 the health of the soldiers on the day President Wilson issued his first call for volunteers.
 Speaking a fe, weeks ago at a Lib erty Loan meeting in Cleveland, Sec retary of War Baker paid his respects I 70 l ,ic,&y | tton's methods of preparing for the great task that confronts it in the I world war.
 "I suppose" he said, that the world would not continue to exist if there were not some doubting Thom- ases-if there were not some mis- guided people who criticis- d some | little fault or another-drumstick or ators about broomstick preparation and that sort of thing.
 | ''But let us pass that over. You can rest in the assurance that America has done herself worthy in her prep
 arations and our boys are not going to want in the supply of arms and
 ammunition and protecting devices against the artifces of our adversary
 They are flowing out in adequate
 quantity from our workshops. And in addition to that-and- like
 more to tell you this than anything else-there is going to be better | army than we have ever had in this | that from the first day that soldier was called, 1t was determined tha' the environment in which The is train | ed shall be healthfui, stimulatine | and wholesome environment.
 Doctors Ever Watchful.
 There are things that soldiers car l bring home that are worse thar wounds. We are sending into this contest Americans. of culture ant high idea1s-worthy of the cause the! are going to defend. And when the!
 come out of it, they will be stimu lated and strengthened so far as the1l
 minds and bodies are concerned 1 heroes in the highest sense or the word.'
 Elimination of typhoid from tn camps is only one of the accomplish I ments of the trained experts that hav' been entrusted with the care of th'
 soldiers health. Every form O. | communicable disease is receiving their constant attention.
 It would take a volume to ade QuateIY tell all tIldL udS OSCA eiis is being done to keep the soldiers wei and strong. A sentence only, however
 Is needed to reveal the secret of sue cess Vaccination, inoculat1on ant
 sanitation have done it.
 Science developed the serum, tha
 prevents the deadly typhoid iron
 claiming victims in the camps. lily giene, or to state it in simpler Ian
 guage, scrupulous cleanliness enforc
 ed by rigid inspection, makes doubl.
 certain the effectiveness of the medi
 cal preventatives.
 This inspection not only insure
 clean bodies, properly ventilated bar
 racks, tents or bi1lets, but eradicate
 all disease-carriers, such as flies
 which if left unnolested would con
 taminate foodstuffs.
 II No Enbalmed Beef. Il The emba1med beef scandal O
 1898 will not be repeated if eterna
 vigilance can prevent it. Camp poi
 1ution, according to one authorit Twas the greatest sanitary sin com mitted by the troops in 1898. Fro! twas traced much, if no tall, of tn
 evils that wrecked the constitution
 of stroDr man