Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1919 — BRITISH DEATHS PASS BIRTHS [ARTICLE]

BRITISH DEATHS PASS BIRTHS

War Office, Alarmed, Releases 700 Physicians From Army Service in Week. London. —Coincident with publication of the report showing that during the last quarter of 1918 the number of deaths exceeded the birth rate for the first time in the history of civil registration In this country, the war office has announced the release in one week of 700 physicians from the army. Influenza caused hthe great ihcrease In the death rate, the number of victims from that disease being 98,998, or 41 per cent of the total deaths for the period. Lack of physicians is held responsible for the failure to curb the epidemic. At the beginning of thlsmonth, although 1,750,000 men of the army have been demobilized, only 1,50(1 out of 11,000 physician* have been rm leased.