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IN every war of which we have records the wastage from disease has outnumbered many times the losses from killed and wounded. Figures from the War of 1914–18 support this statement, as well as the experience of the Walcheren expedition and the Crimean campaign.
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The Public Health in War-Time*. Nature 145, 315 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145315a0
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