68 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
Austrian Galicia, and this disease did 
spread to a considerable extent last fall 
among both armies and in the civil 
population of the war zone. 
No epidemic of large proportions 
resulted however, and although we do 
not know what the next year may bring 
forth, we have good ground to believe 
that the old-time wholesale pestilence 
will be effectively prevented by the 
BEFORE THE DAYS OF SANITATION 
CRIMEAN WAR 
1853-1856 
1,460,500 TROOPS (ALL ARMIES) 
118,342 
from J 
BULLETS AND WOUNDS 
Ute, SUISSE 
491,455 
FROM SICKNESS 
application of the art of modern sanita- 
tion. In view of the wide public interest 
in all that concerns the World war a 
special exhibit has been installed in the 
hall of public health of the American 
Museum of Natural History to show by 
what methods the modern army in the 
field is protected against the ravages 
of disease. 
In the Crimean war of 1853, 23 per 
IN MODERN TIMES 
RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR 
1904-1905 
1,200,000 TROOPS (JAPANESE ARMY) 
58, 887 FROM BULLETS AND WOU INDS 
Yj, Yj MN pip ih ty 
27, 000 FROM DISEASE 
RELATIVE DEADLINESS ,OF BULLETS AND DISEASE 
A striking diagram from the military hygiene exhibit in the Museum's hall of public health 
