PREVENTIVE MEDICINE AND THE WAR 331 



National Guard 



National Army 



Cody 12.7 



Doniphan 11.9 



Shelby 8.6 



Kearney 8.1 



Sheridan 2.8 



Hancock 2.6 



Wadsworth 2.5 



McClellan 2.4 



Logan 2.3 



Lee 10.8 



Dodge 9-1 



Taylor 9.0 



Gordon 7.8 



Sherman 5.4 



Upton 5-3 



Custer 5.1 



Lewis 4.1 



Meade 3-9 



Grant 3.8 



Devens ' 37 



Dix . 2.9 



By comparing tables i and 2 it will be seen that 13 camps 

 had a lower death rate than New York and St. Louis for the 

 age group of 20 to 29 years and in some this rate was about 

 one-half that of these cities. 



The diseases responsible for the greatest number of deaths in 

 the army during the period now under consideration are the 

 acute respiratory diseases. These are named in the order 

 in which they caused death as follows : pneumonia, meningitis, 

 measles, scarlet-fever and diphtheria. With the addition of 

 tuberculosis these caused 77 per cent, of all deaths. Sixteen 

 per cent, were due to other diseases ^and seven per cent, to 

 mechanical injuries. Assuming the conditions in the registra- 

 tion area for 1915 to be fairly representative of other years 

 we may express the relative fatality between civilian and army 

 life during the six winter months as follows : 



Pneumonia was 12 times greater in the army. 



Meningitis was 45 times greater in the army. 



Measles was 19 times greater in the army. 



Scarlet-fever was 6 times greater in the army. 



Diphtheria was 2 times greater in the army. 



Tuberculosis was 13 times greater in civil life. 



The low tuberculosis rate is due to the elimination of those 

 in the active stage of this disease and most of the deaths from 



