THE MIDDLE EAST
ELIMINATION OF DISEASE “At an eai'lier period of history, campaigns such as those which have been fought in the Middle East would undoubtedly have been attended by severe losses from disease among the troops. Even in the last war, when already many medical precautions were taken, sickness took a heavy toll of life in the hot climates—not taking into account that grave epidemic of influenza which swept across Europe in 1918. But, in spite of a trying summer in Africa and in Syria, the senior British medical officer in the Middle East Command reports thjat the health of the troops has been extremely good. As compared with the last war, malaria cases have dropped from 3.5 a thousand to .58; typhoid, from 1.89 to .07; and there lias been no typhus. The troops have been taught to wage war on flies at their breeding-grounds and to take other preventive measures. We are told that men fresh from temperate climates are standing up magnificently to the heat. Not only as the training of men in all units designed to keep them fit, but more attention is given than ever before to health conditions. The results are reassuring.”—“The Spectator,” London.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4529, 28 January 1942, Page 3
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