Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-08-06

tnc,nerated. No heaps which breed
disease - carrying flies or mos
ouitoes are allowed to accumulate.
Food is abundant, wholesome,
nutritious. Skilled dieticians de-
termine the proper proportion OF
food essentials and have regulated
menus to assure your son an evenly
balanced diet. He does not get so
much candy and pie as a seif-in-
dulgent appetite might desire. but
plenty OF wholesome bodybuilding
food, as good as his superior OF.
f1cers eat. At one camp | had the
pleasure OF dining with every rank
in the service from major general
to private. and found the food
equally well-cooked and wholesome.
The generals meals we're served
more daintily. that's all.
PROTECTED IN WINTER.
Failur to clothe recruits proper
~ was charged last winter. In the
tremendous task Of raising an army
OF more than a million men quickly,
no doubt some did not receive over
coats Immediately. These instances
were few. The published char.
ges we're much exaggerated. The
officers took care to see that the
men who had not been clothed
properly were protected otherwise
from winters rigors. Moreover,
boys engaged in their strenuous
work they did not need es heavy
clothing as at home. What they
wear Is determined accurately &C
cordinE to health requirements,
These things may be all right
theoretically, but how does my boy
look? the mother anxiously in
quires.
Truthfully, never IN my life have
] seen a more healthy, rugged bunch
OF youngsters than those consre-
gated in cantonments along. our
Atlantic coast. The boys in France
are equally robust. Boys who en-
tered the service stoop-shouldered.
sallow, dudley, d. slouchy now are
erect. ruddy-cheekcd. alert young
men.
In spite OF all precautions. how.
ever, some men are bound to be i'll
among a million or more. Your
boy may be one OF those afflicted.
Large, thoroughly up-to-date hos.
pitfalls are in each cantonment. They
compare favorably with the hos.
pitfalls in the large cities. The
medical attention is immediate.
Your son Tom is under the super
vision OF his regimental medical
ofr1cer, and at the slightest sign Of
bona fide indisposition. is trans.
} ferred to the hospital. The medical
or surgical care he receives there
Is the very best, for the Army
Medical Corps IL not chosen hap
hazard. Many famous medical men
gave up their lucrative practices
to 60 into government service. to
safeguard the health OF your boy
and to cure him when he is Ill.
The hospital wards are scrupul-
ously clean. thoroughly disinfected.
Nurses glide softly around. attend
ing every need. As a result OF the
provision, the death rate In the
army II less than 1t is In civil life.
The report OF the Chief Medical
Ofacer at Camp Lee. representing
an average health report of all At
lantic coast environments. showed
that from September to is the
average non-efectivs ratio from
sickness Of all sort was is per
cent, meaning tfat three boys out
OF every two hundred were laid
up by illness.
There was an increase to % per
cent In October. due largely to vac
cination. In December there was
an increase to 4 per cent due to an
epidemic Of mumps. No fatalities
from that of course. From Sep