Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-08
AEN DRAFT TEES SUFFER
I'm INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC
statistics Mt Camp Lee Show Greatest
ia Number OF Victims Were There
@s,e, ~ Less Than Thirty Days.
CAPTAINS ARE MADE MAJORS

CAPTAINS ARE MADE MAJORS
Officers in Eighticth Division Arc
"a Promoted, According to Letters
a. Received From the Front in France
!. 49, i. by Drafted Men in Camp.
iHaGAAiP LEE. November 7.-s,atis,ics
Il announced to-day from the camp SUR
s Eeon's office prove in a striking, man
htdisclIiine and training upon the men
Il at this camp The statistics were pre-
RI {pared in connection with the deaths
u that resulted during the recent cpl,
r ;demic OF Spanish Influenza They show
4 & remar bly, high percentage of deaths
4 fram the men who had been in camp
less than thirty days ana a small per-
- Gentsge for those men who had been
huhject to military discipline for more
than ninety days.
When the disease made it's appear
anee in camp, 9.l9 per cent OF the men
liad1been here less than thirty days.
From this small! number there resulted
+ S225{ per cent of all deaths that oc
securred. This is more than three times
..sthe number of deaths that should have
/. men.
Those who had been in camp from
one to three months furnished proper
proportion of the deaths, OF those sta
toned here at that time. 45.lS per cent
E had been in the service more than one
month and less than three. OF those
.ssJnatSQled, 1926 per cent were drawn
q 1Eo nIthis class.
Enough Asa per cent of those on
s thfsS months experience. only si.5o
sspsnatent of the men who died from in
huenza came from this class.
on the first 100 men t Who died Of pneu
monia following Spanish influenza.
However. medical authorities feel sure
the S74 deaths that resulted from the
C6fonel Brownlee. camp surgeon. as
well as Major Darlington, former Pub
lie Health Commissioner of the city of
New York. attribute this excellent
showing OF men: who have been in the
theirs wholesome food, proper exercise.
surroundings and living conditions.
FIFTY-SEvEN OFFICERS
ARE GIVEN ADVANCE
Fifty-seven officers of the infantry
replacement camp we're today adj
made majors. fourteen first licutenants
were made captains and thirty-ninc
second lieutcnants were made first lieu
tenants. There were no Nirginians in
The following officers left tonight
for Camp Macarthur, Waco, Texas.
central officers training school Cap
tain Chester p. Downer, First Licutcn-
ants F. Q; Miller and William J. Scott,
ards. Joseph "A. Wilson, L. G. Smith
and Earl Warren.
! Major Edward ID. Follett, camp judge
{ brother. Alfred ID. Follett. died sud-
denly this week at his home in Mari
eta. Ohio.
OFFICERS IN EIGHTIETH DIVISION.
NOW IN FRANCE, PROMOTED
A letter received at camp to-day from
Of division hpl6nMa
Z. the Eishtieth Division announced the
= promotion OF several of the officers with
= Captain Charles =. Jones. of Philadel-
=. phia, TO major. Major Jones served as
* enlisted man in the Pennsylvania
Z National Guard along the Mexican Dor
= der. He was on duty as cook ut reg
Y irnental officers mess. He attended
8 first Fort Myers where he was COM
=: later advanced TO captain. He went to
Ffafiee division personnel adjutant
He is now adjutant of the Eighteth
Division, and at twenty-five years OF
age is probably the youngest division
Lieutenant Clifford a. Cutchns, OF
Franklin, Va. was advanced to first
lieutenant. For several months Lieu
tenant Cutchns was III charge OF the
information bureau at division head
member of the Three Hundred and
Eighteenth Virginia Infantry, but was
later transferred to division headquar-
Captain John Black, assistant divi-
sion quartermaster, has been made a
major.
vision Quartermaster's office. has been
made captain.
division aergeaRt Major Packer has
been made a second lieutenant.
ENLISTED men who successfully com
pleted- the course at the central OFF,
GERS training school. but who showed
physical defects at the last Of tho school
period in which their classmates were
graduated and for that reason were
denied their commissions. viii soon be
commissioned second licutcnants Their
record since completing the course
Inust. have been excellent and other
) necessary prerequisites must have
.,I,stM MONA VACCINE
ff-s FOR SOLDIERS IN CAMP
!. Pneumonia vaccine viii lie admin
! istered to soldiers at this camp. This
xagEtne was used successfully at other
cambs last year and is being extend
.,sdSto other units OF the army 'rnc
vaccine is not considered a value 10 n
patient who has pneumonia, but is ad-
administered purely as 81 preventive. 1t
Is less severe in its results to the man
adI1fn istered than the typhoid vaccine
(which is given every mai who is mus
pfered- into the service. Parity phO!d as
well as smallpox vaccine, is also given
the men at the time they ere mus
tered into the service
/ Medical authorities state that there
are four types OF pneumonia The vac
: cine is admir- is;cred as a preventive In
types one. TWO and three. II Is from
! these, species OF the Infection that under
Z 'ordinary circumstances the majority
of deaths occur from pneumonia Tyne
four of pneumonia. which is that tvuc
i (which generally follows as a comrii-
! tcation of Spanish in tiucnza. Is not bcne-
if1teu by the vaccine. Medical authpri.
tties here do not consider that any AZ
1.-the vaccines recommended az IA prcvcn-
. tive from pneumonia following innu-
icnza> or sufjcient success to justify
their use at this camp
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