WAR'S MORTALITY.
, ''"' option '■'I'- expressed bv Dr. Ch.irl.y (I. Ma-.,, at the Clinical Congress r " Sitr-ons of North America, held in I'ondnn la.i month, that the death-rate in '■'« present, war would, in relation to the "limbers engaged, h- far less than in some w m* of the past. This would be so ""•''''''" typhoid and had water were no »>ng'T thu cause of main deaths, medical *»mt.ary progress in these things having r "-fti great._ As was shown in the RussoJapanese War, typhoid ran be successfully combated. Antityphoid vaccine and modern methods of surgery and sanitation also greatly aid in the reduction of mortality. The' high power' bullets go with web velocity that they become cleaned Wore perforating the body, thus- reducing •■ho chances of infection. Wounds nowaday are not like those caused by the oldfashioned bullets, which made unclean Sfounds.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15717, 18 September 1914, Page 7
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