Abstract
THE health of the Army, at home and abroad, during 1930 is dealt with in the War Office Report recently issued (H.M. Stationery Office. 2s. 6d. net) The ratio per 1000 of the strength of men admitted to hospital was 428.4, which is the lowest since the War, with the exception of 1928. Malaria caused 7365 admissions, venereal diseases, 6146, and inflammation of the tonsils, 5519. The principal causes of invaliding from the Army were tuberculosis, 200 cases, and middle ear disease, 182 cases. Enteric fevers accounted for only 253 cases, of which 207 were in India. A single case of undulant fever is reported, an abortus infection at York. There were 534 cases of pneumonia, with a case mortality of 10.6 per cent. It is of interest that the pneumonia figures of forty years ago, selected at random, give a mortality figure of 12 per cent. Considering the less efficient nursing then available, this suggests that effective treatment of pneumonia has not materially advanced. Some details are given of researches carried out by officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps.
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Health of the Army. Nature 129, 432 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129432b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/129432b0