The Army and Its Health
The British soldier of to-day does not drink as much beer as his predecessor. He likes lemonade better and is becoming an adherent of the “Drink More Milk” campaign. As a result there has been a steady reduction in the number of heat stroke and heat exhaustion cases in India. This tendency is helped by another; the soldier is not shut up during the hot hours of the day. These facts are revealed in a record of the Army's Health Organisation. Hospital admissions in India are about double those in .England, the reasons being chiefly local injuries, sprains, cuts, fractures and minor septic cases. Tonsilitis shows a high figure. 28 per 1000, diphtheria about a hundred admissions a year.
The reasons for the high hospital figures in India arc malaria, sandfly fever and dysentery which are seldom met with in England and though the incidence of malaria has dropped most of the present cases are relapses from eld infections. This reduction is due to steady anti-malaria work over many years.
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Northern Advocate, 30 December 1938, Page 7
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175The Army and Its Health Northern Advocate, 30 December 1938, Page 7
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