Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1919 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby OitAes and Town*—Matter* of Minor Mention From Many Place*. OFFICIAL FIGI RES YANK LOSSES Surgeon General llei»orts t 11,170 Deaths During War to DateWashington, cial report from the surgeon general issued by the war department today gives the total number of deaths reported in the army during ’ the war to date as 111,179. Of this total, 56,639, or 51%, were Isl-om disease, 43% in battle or from wounds received in battle and 6% from other injuries. Of the deaths from disease about 32,000 have occurred since hostilities ceased.

For the third successive week, the report said, the rate for new cases of disease in the expeditionary forces for the week ended April 10, marked a low record. Only 9,422 men were admitted to the sick report as a result of disease, “giving the remarkably low annual rate of 3.80 per thousand.” Typhoid fever showed an Increase, however, 54 new cases being reported for that week. In the United States no unusual disease prevails at any camp or station, except at Camp Devens, where the Incidence of Influenza and pneumonia is high among the returned troops. A total of 102 new cases of pneumonia were reported for the week ending April 18, and 208 new cases c»f Influenza. During the seven-day period ended April 18, the sick and wounded troops returned to the United States totaled 3,174, bringing the grand total of sick and wounded returned during the war to 110,562. In hospitals abroad on the last date reported there were 44,172 sick from disease and 9,428 from injury. The army medical service expects to bring back 18,000 of these men in May, 9,000 in June and 4,000 in July.