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V V X 



ri'siilts were so fiivornMc tli;it in I'.'I I it 

 Wiis iii.-ulf coinpulsorv. 1 1 li;is lifcii >;iiil 

 lliMt it should still lie vtiluiitarv. lint 

 ii> r\rrv case of ty|thni(l inipi-fils tln' 

 lirallli and life dT mult it ihIcs \vc suri'lv 

 have a riiiiit !<• make it fompulsitrv su 

 as 111 |M-<>tcTt all llif ff>t. All that is 

 ufct'ssarv to provf this is to l<»ol< at 

 these tallies of cases and deaths in our 

 Army and Na\y. 



TYrnoUi KKVK.IC IN TIIK INITKI) 

 STATKS AKMY 

 Vfiir (jis.-* H.'iitlis 



100«> 210 12 



1S>07 124 7 



lt)OS 1.16 11 



1909 173 16 



litlO 142 10 



I V.VCCISATIOX M.MiE COMITI.SORY | 



liMl 70 8 



1!»12 27 4 



litl.H 4 



1914 7 3 



1915 81 



TVI'HOUI KKVKK IN THE I'NITKD 

 STATKS NAVY 



19(19 189 17 



191(1 193 10 



1911 222 15 



[vaccination mal»: compulsory] 



1912 57 2 



1913 22 4 



1914 13 



1915 15 1 



On the Mexican licn'der, ihuugh the 

 fever was rife near the camps, only one 

 man out of 20.000 troops, a civilian, 

 who unfortunately escaped vaccination, 

 fell ill with it. 



Xow let us see the results in tlie 

 armies in the present war. 



In the British armies, on March 1, 

 li'lT, Mr. Forster, I'nder Secretary for 

 War, stated in the House of Commons 

 that 



Tlio last weekly returns sliowrd only t\ven- 

 tyfour cases in the four Hritish armies in 

 France, Salonica, Egypt and Mesopotamia. 

 He added that the total number of cases of 

 typhoid fever in the British troops in France 



'Four in tlif riiitcd .Stati-s : 4 in Iliiwnii. 



down to .Nov.'ihixT 1. 191C.. was l.(i.s4, of 

 |iaratyjilioid -' 2,5.'{4, and of iii.lclinitc cases, 

 l>5:{, inakin;,' a total of l,.')71 of tin- typhoid 

 ^roiiji. 



\i>\\ the l";nL:li>li armiry numlier at 



le;i>t ."..(1(1(1.(1(1(1. W they had MllTerctl 



as our .\rmy diil in is'.'S there would 

 have lieeli I .()()().(»()() case> ! In I'aet 

 there have lieeii less than l.(i(i(i: Be- 

 >ide,- that, the pereentaiic of fatal cases 

 in the inoculated men was 1.1 per cent, 

 in ihi' uuinoeidated '?;{.") per cent ; and 

 jH'rforatioii of ihc liuwcl. ihr nio-t dan- 

 ofcrous conipl ieat ion. occurred six Itiin's 

 more frfiiiiiiil li/ amoni:' the unvacci- 

 nate(l than ariKUi^ those who had heen 

 prolccteil. In the British arnnes the 

 antityphoid vaccination is still \<ilun- 

 larv lint more than IHi pci' criii have 

 .<()U_Mlit il> pnileciion. If it had heen 

 compulsory, liundre(ls of the |.")1 1 irho 

 (J if (J iroiild have been saved! 



In our own Army in more than four 

 months (Sepieinher 21, lOIT. to .lanu- 

 arv 25, I'.MS). a period one month 

 Ioniser than oui' war with Spain (the 

 Sur<:eon (ienei'aj's Otlice i:i\cs me the 

 official ti,i:'ure.- ). we have h;!il an average 

 (i. e., every day of tiiese four months) 

 of 742.f)2() men in our cantonments and 

 camps. These men have come frmn all 

 over the country, in many cases from 

 where autumnal typhoid was reapinir its 

 anmud harvest, in practically all cases 

 unprotected hy vaccination. Between 

 these two dates there have heen 114 

 cases of typhoid and o of paraty|)hoid. 

 Ifatl the coiiditions of 1S9S i>n'valleil 

 I ill' re would have been l^Jt.oOG cases in- 

 sh'iid of no in nil ! The reason is clear. 

 The men wwr all immediately vacci- 

 nated a«rainst tyjihoid. paratyphoid and 

 smallj)o.\.-' 



Besides this as soon as the anti- 

 tyjthoid inoculation was completeil the 

 nundier of ca.<cs rapidly fell and from 

 Decemlier 11 to Fchruary lo — !» weeks 



-■ A form of fever raiiticd by a biioilliis soincwiiiit 

 Riniilar to tlu- typlioid bacillu.s but causini; ii niucb 

 milder infection. 



' Of tlio last disease, there have Ix-en only 4 

 caKCH, all iinvaccinated. 



