The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-28
FAILURE OF MOBILIZATION
 IN AmERICAN ARMY
From The Vaccination Inquir er)

those powers by showing them how death and dis ease follow too dece acceptance of medical
 Now that the orthodox allopathio school of medicine has been newly exalted and given Min lstry or State which announces its intention o coming down and asking for more powers and going ahead and drawing upon the public nurse 1t is more than necessary some check by way or carefully verified results should be imposed upon enterprise. It will be untrue to type and tradition if it renders in that respect Our readers well know with what difficulty rep resentatives in Parliament prise open it's oyster-ke officials in quest of the pearls truth. The in- fluenza epidemic now abating-what lot light that might have thrown upon various ques- tons of treatment and prophyaxis. But our hiero- plants of esoteric medicine prefer to dig in trails or living dogs rather than observe, classify and compare data furnished by the Arranging
 What was the comparative incidence of the epidemic on various classes of the community and on various localities? What the fatality as be- tween pauents or orthodox and of unorthodox medi- cine? Especially would 1t be interesting instruc class composed entirely of men in the prime of life and picked for physical fitness which has allopathic State doctors for four years. How does their disease and fatality rate since Armistce its dietary, its infants aged and weakly and its over-work strain? These things it would be useful to know, but which for reason 1t is not easy to get at
 Figures America.
 We have to believe the heavy mor- talfty in our camps and troopships has been aggra vated by the fact that soldiers thoroughly impregnated with vaccines and of all kinds, which blood 50 impure as to be incapable of normal resistance infection.
 
 across facts and figures food for thought dispatch from Washington to the "Chi- cago Tribune" announces that over 3O,O00 soldiers died, from influenza and pneumonia alone. n camps of the United States during the last months of 1918.
 From death-rate of 2:3 per thousand in the week of September 18th, it month 206:4 thousand-a death-rate for the of over 30 thousand
 According the "Truth-Tel1er" (March 1st), Dr. Victor Heser, writing in the Journal American Medical Association" frankly the death-rate in the camps from 70 three times greater than in civil life Among the city death-rates for the period
 Philadelphia, S:S; Boston, 7:5; New York,
 The "Truth-T Teller" draws attention 0 the re- markable fact that New York, with housing and other conditions that might have a death-rate The explanation it suggests is that Philadelphia is dominated by the orthodox allopaths and has the strictest health" laws in the country, whereas New York Is the regime of homoeopath, Dr. Royal Copeland, the present Health Commissioner
 Consider the ghastly contrast: New thousand; soldiers 30 thousand.
 figures taken by Mrs. Little Gin the 'Truth-Teller') from medical estimates ub- lished by the Chicago Tribune which has thodox medico (W. A. Evans) it's staff
 Influenza in 1918.
 first Six Weeks of Epidemic Sept. Early
 November)
 Death
 Population. Deaths. rate per 7ho1e U. S. .......... 111,ooo.ooo s5o.ooo SIS