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IT is well known that disease is more fatal to the soldier in a campaign than the bullets of the enemy. Thus in the South African campaign the total deaths from disease were almost exactly double those due to wounds in battle. The diseases which persistently dog the track of an army are typhoid or enteric fever, dysentery, and, in certain countries, cholera, and to these the principal mortality is due.
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HEWLETT, R. The Sterilisation of Water in the Field . Nature 72, 431–432 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072431b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/072431b0