IMPROVED HEALTH
FORCES IN MIDDLE EAST LOWER DISEASE INCIDENCE (Reed. Aug. 9, 10 a.m.) CAIRO, Aug. 8. A medical officer emphasised the improvement in the health of the British troops in the Middle East, compared with the last war. The latest medical knowledge and equipment had reduced dysentery, malaria, and typhoid, and so far there had been no eases of typhus or influenza. The officer instanced the South African war, when there were 233 enteric cases per 1000 troops yearly, compared with 1.89 in Egypt in the Great War and .07 in the whole of the Middle East in this war. Malaria had dropped from 3.5 per 1000 to ,58d, and typhoid from 1.89 to .07. Venereal diseases show only a slight reduction.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20629, 9 August 1941, Page 5
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