Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1918 — 235 Deaths Last Week At Camps; 277 Last Week [ARTICLE]

235 Deaths Last Week At Camps; 277 Last Week

Pneumonia caused 149 of the 235 deaths reported among the nationl guardsmen and national army men training in this country, during the week ending January 11. The weekly report of the division of field sanitation shows that 88 guardsmen died during the week as compared with 109 the week before, ana 147 national army men as against 167 the previous week. Both the. hospital admission and non-effective rates in the guardsmen and the national army camps increased during the week. Among the guardsmen there were 342 new cases of pneumonia and in the national army 340.