THE LATE WAR. BULLET VERSUS DISEASE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 27, 10 November 1898, Page 15

THE LATE WAR. BULLET VERSUS DISEASE.

In replying to a correspondent the San Francisco Monitor says :—: — The war lasted 114 days. Acsording to the records 279 American soldiers were killed in battle. The New York World gives figures of sickness and death in war and peace, taking the peace period to be twenty-two days from the signing of the protocol. The figures are startling. They will be more so by the time the last dead soldier is buried. Here are the tables :—: — THE RECORD OF WAR. Killed in the army ... ... ... 260 Killed in the navy ... ... ... 12 Killed in the marines ... ... 7 Wounded in the army ... ... 1400 Wounded in the navy ... ... 10 Wounded in the marines ... ... 13 Total— 279 killed, 1,423 wounded. THE RECORD OF PEACE. Dead in camp at Santiago ... ... 341 Dead on home-coming troopships ... 95 Dead in camps of recuperation ... ... 150 Dead in camps of mobilisation ... ... 800 Miscellaneous, hospitals and homes ... 700 Total killed by disease (estimated) ... 2086 Total stricken by disease (estimated) ... 40000 You will notice, with deep and profound regret (says the Monitor) that this table does not include those who ought to be dead, or those who, in the order of things, will, within the next few months, make the acquaintance of the hangman. But the list is long enough to make the late war ' in the interests of humanity ' a thing of grave difficulty to the brain of the small boy of the future.