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THE recent utterances of Sir Frederick Treves on I the subject of the Army Medical Service (see NATURE, November 2, p. 15), and the discussion on enteric fever in the army which has appeared in the columns of the Times, have again directed attention to the inadequacy of the means taken in our army to prevent the incidence of enteric fever and other filth diseases. The crux of the matter is this: we have to provide hospital accommodation for io per cent. of our forces in the field, the Japanese for but 2 per cent. Why this difference? In the South African campaign no less than 746 per 1000 of the fighting forces were admitted into hospital for disease which is mainly preventable. In this war there were something like 450,000 admissions to hospital on account of sickness and some 22,000 admissions on account of wounds or injuries received in action.
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Lieut.—Col. Firth, R.A.M.C., Journ. of Hygiene, Sept., 1905, p. 543.
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HEWLETT, R. The Wastage in Armies by Disease . Nature 73, 105 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/073105a0
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