HEALTH OF THEARMY.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15223, 10 March 1915, Page 10

HEALTH OF THEARMY.

GKEAT SITRGEOK'3 TESTJMOIfc (rnou OCR own LONDU.N. Februury •» '"--, A statement of thehiahebt iniportaa£ rogardißß cUo sanunry oTSJl>nusJi x.x.Dcdino«ar.v .force was load* by Sir Frederick Jrevos at the jfceX}.' ol Arts. lnvmentaiiy, tn o opinaem or inoculation are put completely ot court. jue occasion was toe secondor the course or Ciuidwick kctureVo* 'War and Disease," v? Or. *' M Sandwith. * * -"'i .Sir I'rederick Treves presided and 1 alter retemiyj to tiio war m "South' Atnca and tho Russo-Japanese wax of* both of which he had experience'-V»< said he did not hesitate to declare. the*"" tlre sanitary arrangements in the nte-< seat war were absolutely uiiprccodai/ cd. lnoy v.ere .without auv parallel. As a member or the Arm?? oamtary Cbmniitteo at the Mar (J^- ,- iie could spoak with point. "\Vheu tue history of tljis'mtV camo to be writ ton aud "read v the most astounding and uingnifioa£j' features in it would be found to-Tbt* the sanitary precautions that had beefs: taken, and the sanitary measures 1&i$~ had been carried out, to secure tS*5health of our soldiers, and lueir aw';; iiii time of disease. iiut although 'Mi..i phoid might be rendered leas, by proper education ot tuu. dier, by tiio care and knowledge of tltr-" medical men, and by oanitaiy ment<i, it.could not by thoj>e measured be eradicated. A lurtlier precaalioes. was needed, and mat precaution wai*£ alforded by inoculation. ~?£ air Frederick continued: "Tho trotiuS of this at tins moment admits, of r£~ : kind of doubt. The results in tßt§ present' Expeditionary Force have befcfx positively astonishing. Since the vigs began tnere have-been in the BritiskS Expeditionary Force only 212 typhoid fever. Of these 4 2U1 protected men. Of tho.L'Ol, 173'Iw£! not been inoculated at all, while;®;"* had received either one inoculation "Sv. , had not been Inoculated for a periodV^ , over two years. Of the 212 onlygi; men had been inoculated. These injures cannot be gainsaid. Moreorer,' among these 212 watientt. there. w«* 22 deaths. All these deatlis weref/a , tho cases of non-inoe:ilatcd meat'-Not . a single n)an had died of typhoid forir " in the Uritish Expc-tlitionarj*JForeowho had been inoculated. I iningnoi , that ■ there is nothing more to. bo^Bwd--'oa--'.' tho-matter, if tacts aro of and those who attempt to - perswjdj-/ the soldier not to be inoculated '{vtir " ; playing into the hands of, , the Senesar^- ! and giving,him. exactly the advico t»i' Germans would bo only too pleased ta-f give him." " lleferring to the revolution'of port, which in the present war was ried out by admirable ambulance traiiif%f and motor ambulances, Sir said they would be interested to heir|£ that rights up at tho .very front "there sjjt were a motor laboratory, motor kifr v chens. and motor ambulances of" kinds. At the same time, wo apparently never be able to at the actual firing lines with horse ambulance. A motor could. gei'Ss. into a ditch, but it could not get ««}ts£ of one. A horse ambulance, And, moreover, another curious -thiae 5 * was that at present no motor' travel a whole day with a that was to say. it could not, owing!;? to gearing, travel at throe miles -«-'»•? hour for twelve hours. Hence his fce—>

lief that they would never be J dispense altogether with the horse bulanee. '^'ir&k " At the same time. Sir "William Collins made an interesting- , on the health of tho Navy. * 6 few people, ho said, knew how 1 mously the health of the Navy hadinKM 1 proved in the last thirty-five ye»r*fS J When he entered it in 1878 the '• rate per 1000 men wan 47 per ' was now 25. Tho invaliding rate"is:§£ i 1878 was 35 per 1000; to-day it im*Js*s > The death-rate at that time was 6/JW& ' 1000,: to-day it was only 2. Ti',~ Sfe ) William pointed out the sick-rate in,.«*|p i Navy had been equal to the- ■ of thirty-eight years ago, every .dij£S£ they would be having 5000 more on the sick 'list. The improvemeapg| placed in the fighting line wore no than the crews of seven . and it had been achieved by attentions?! to hygienic measuree. The mediwj|= services trusted largely to tho cdut*-Jgg tion of the men of tho Navy. ev«j§|| single one of whom attended upon the hygiene of his life. -"-c#jj