Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-03-07
THE ROLL OF HONOR.

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The country has confidence in the
medical care of the men in the army.
Each week the authorities report the
sickness rate for the entire army and
for the national guard as compared
WIN the national army. Furthermore,
thc report gives the amount of each
form of contagin and II straightforward
statement as to whether conditions in
"A camp are improving or getting
worse. Under this policy the public is
satisfied that any conditions that can
he remedied will be speedily cared for.
According to the official bulletin the
noncffectivc rate for Il week in January
was a.? per thousand and the admis-
sion rate per 1000 was 90. The nom
Effective rate for the national army
was 1914 and the admission for dis
sase was 29.9. BY noneffectivc rate is
meant the number of sick and injured
N a force per l 900 on Il given date. The
sickness rate is the number per 1000
~teporting sick during a given week.
These figures indicate tjiat sickness
In on the Increase. This IS to be eX1
pected at this season of TIE year. The
"ates can be expected TO Increase until
about February Is for camps in the far
south, II March Ia for camps i'm the
north.
The banner camp for the week Is
Hancock. in Georgia, with . rate of 9.S.
Upton, n. Y, Is second, with a rate
OF 10. Other camps are Sheridan, Ala.
1875; Custer, Mich, 1913; Sewer. S. c.,
l6.9; and Macarthur, Tex, Is.
There was just one case Of typhoid
lever in the entire force and that was
IN Lee. Va. Compare this with tho
10000 cases In the small army called
nut In 1898. Every camp deserves to be
carried on the typhoid fever honor roll
Every camp Is clean and sanitary. Wit
npSI NOT nn1V thn nhoanrn nf fvnhniI
but also the fact that IN the entira
army but three cases of dyscntery were
exported.
The camp with the smallest number
OF cases OF pneumonia reported during
the week a Hancock. Ga, one case.
Devens. Mass, had two cases. Dix, In
New Jersey, had two. Mcclellan, in
Alabama. and Custer, Mich, had three,
and Sheridan, Ala. had five. wads-
worth In South Carolina; Logan, il
Texas; Doniphan, in Oklahoma: Sheri,
dan. in Alabama; Shelby, in Mississip.
pi; Meade. in Maryland; Gordon, in
Georgia; Sherman. in Ohio: Grant in
Illinois: Funston. in Kansas, and Lewis
In Washington, each had less than 10
new cases.
The honor Of having The smallest
goes to Camp Funston. with six cases.
Wheeler, Ga. was second, with eight
cases, and Upton. N. Y, third, with
nine. Devens. Mass, had 13: Kearney,
Cal. IA: Sherman. Ohio. 16, and Sheri-
dan, Ala. u. These are rates that
would have been held impossibly low
q few a ago. This Ia a roll OF hon
or without question.
The honor OF measles goes to Camp
Lewis. Wash, no cases during two
weeks. Bowie, Tex, had only one case;
Upton. n. Y, two: Wheeler. Ga, three,
and Hancock, in Georgia. five.
Ten amp had no new cases of men
nights during the week. Twenty Of the
M had no scarlet fever.
only eleven cases Of malaria were re-
ported in all the camps combined. Those
were from four camps: Beauregard,
La: Travis. Tex: Logan, Tex, and
Jackson. g. G. In the report such ex-
pressions AZ "epidemics OF measles are
subsiding in most camps the pre-
valence OF meningitis is rapidly declin-
ing new case Of pneumonia show a
marked decrease as compared with last
week. are found here and there.