The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-10-16
NOUN TAIN RECRUITS
GET GREAT SURP RISE
GET LESSONS IN SANITATION
AND OTHER MODERN
WAYS

louisville, Ky, oct. 12.-The re-
cruits that come to Camp Zachary
Taylor, drawn in the main from
rural districts Of Kentucky, Indiana
and southern Illinois are receiving
an object lesson in personal sani-
tation and disease prevention that
promises much for the future health
OF their respective communities.
The regime under which they
come IS something totally strange
70 them, the cXtremc care in correct
ing small faults OF the human mech
anism seems 4 trifle old maidish.
and the scrupulousness with which
health OF men is guarded appears
bit foolish. This is the first inn
preston.
Then comes the time when Tim
after being at the camp for few
weeks, visits town and becomes curl
Gus as how much weight he has lost
by hard drill
To his amazement he finds that
though girth may have decreased.
weight has increased, and that this
condition is general at his barracks.
Then he learns that a companion.
who came into camp with the tired |
movement of the hook-worm victim. /
was prodded and poked while held
IN the hospital for couple Of weeks,
that he had been cured of the hook.
worm and his infected tonsils re-
moved. Furthermore that he had
gained thirty pounds in the two
months following the physical over
hauling.
Lined Up Twice Daily
Twice daily the men are lined up
md questioned regarding their state
of health. Those with flushed cheeks,
slightly sore throats or other symp-
oms of illness are hurried to the
cgimental inhrmary for rigid eX-
and isolation in event of
measles OF other contagious dis
aSes.
This shows something of the prac-
ice OF the medical department of the
United States army which, under its
resent day code, as voiced by the
rmy doctor prefers to see nine
slide by rather than
cave one man at drill or other duty
D spread disease who ought to be
l bed
1t is such proof OF the importance
laced upon the question OF disease
revention and health maintenance {
y military authorities that is max
lg over the ideas OF personal san
alton OF many OF the men coming {
} Camp Zachary Taylor. The prac- a
ce here is identically as that pur- c
led wherever one OF the army doc |
,rs is responsible for the health Of '
ghting men. S
Many OF the men coming here G
ON the mountains of Kentucky
I'd from the rural sections of the y
her states. have been accustomed =
sleeping rooms nearly or quite
,rmetically sealed. Here they sleep \
it'll all windows open even when a ~
,wling gale drives across the room. :
'iudows never closed at night ex- :,
pit to exclude rain. +
This doesn't meet with the ap- r
oval of many of the new arrivals, =,
It later they notice that colds ~
me less frequently, that they wake y -
, in the morning with heads clear !
, bodies better rested, and not one t'
them will ever be content to go ''
ok to the old stufiy bed room with st
lich the folks back home content .
emselycS. q,
Recently the wisdom OF letting in q
,nty OF fresh air brought forcibly t'
me to the men here by the manner
which the epidemic OF Spanish in IT.
enza spread. 1t first appeared al
long men housed in barracks. 1t u
read more rapidly among them
an any other portion of the camp W
pulation, and men living in tents to
cause of lack of room to house
I'm in barracks were least affected. II
mplaints by the tent dwellers be-
use they could not live in the
IRE comfortable barracks, have