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Order Camp Location Date 
1 Devens...... Massachusetts ....| Sept. 12 
2) || Uptone-ecer New York....... eae: 
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AS MD ixGhe See New Jersey...... rr as} 
4 | Jackson...... South Carolina....| “ 18 
5 | Hoboken..... New Jersey....... eee) 
5 | Syracuse......| New York........| ‘“ 19 
5 | Gordon...... Geonciaeee eee «19 
5 | Humphreys ..| Virginia..........| ~ 19 
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6 | Funston..... Kansas./..0. c.ds05 oh" 740) 
6 | Meade....... Maryland......... 20 
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Te ey OCA IG@ionicliay Geaaccaul 22 
8 | Sevier....... South Carolina....| “ 238 
8 | Lewis .......| Washington....... oe 623 
8 | Newport News| Virginia.......... Ty e23 
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10 | Beuregard ...| Louisana......... Bean 243) 
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11, | Greene . ...5. North Carolina....| ““ 26 
11 | McClellan....| Alabama..........| “‘ 26 
12 | Kearney..... California..:.....: ian J 
12 | Bowie....... Mexagek y/ ents cise Caney 
13 | Jobnston.....| Florida........... nae) 28: 
13 | Sheridan.....| Alabama ......... tes 28, 
14 | Sherman..... Obie aekrace ee ape) 
14 | Dodge....... Ai ohh Gece ous Geese beta eA) 
14 | Shelby Be | Miassissippi. eee cit nn Zo 
15 | Custer.......| Michigan......... SO) 
iG dbeaaise woweos EGS EIS ee td elas ctl gncer fy Oct. 1 
Ne  Clochi aA b coo New Mexico....:.| =~ 3 
18 | Forrest eK Georgian ccuancis oH 6 
19 || MacArthur. . .|\Texas .. 222.226) 7 
20 | Wadsworth...|South Carolina....| “ 11 
20 | Wheeler ..... Georpigiinee dae see aeons! 
20 | Greenleaf ....| Georgia .......... tbl 
true now we may look forward to another pan- 
demic before many months are past. It is to 
be remembered that the present is the second, 
not the first, great wave which has occurred 
here this year. 
The pandemic now raging may truly be 
termed an epidemic of epidemics. However 
desirable it may be to ferret out the cause to 
the first case this can not be done. Like all 
great outbreaks of this most infectious of 
communicable diseases, the epidemics now oc- 
curring appear with electric suddenness, and, 
acting like powerful, uncontrolled currents, 
produce violent and eccentric effects. The dis- 
ease never spreads slowly and insidiously. 
[N. 8. Vou. XLVIII. No. 1245 
Wherever it occurs its presence is startling. 
The consternation and alarm which it pro- 
duces frequently lead to irrational and futile 
measures to check it. 
In theory and practise influenza is prevent- 
able but it is very difficult to control under 
municipal and military conditions. It rarely 
happens that the necessary measures—chiefly 
isolation—are taken in time. In the present 
pandemic the disease has, on more than one oc- 
casion, been confined to certain wards of hos- 
pitals to the exclusion of others. It is not pos- 
sible as yet to state to what extent it has been 
restricted in camps. No large camp has es- 
caped it. 
The following table gives the numbers at- 
tacked and the deaths recorded up to October 
18 in twenty of the largest camps and canton- 
ments: 
TABLE OF CASES AND DEATHS AMONG 20 CAMPS 
GROUPED IN THEIR CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER 
OF ATTACK 
3 83 r= coer {.38). 3 
88 | 28 | 88 |RES|ES5le8 
—~S | -8 | 8 jogsjosalogg 
Se | Be | es [sels eaisas 
B= | Ga | Sa |ASRlaa S| a 
Five camps at- 
tacked (Sept. 
12-18)?....... 45,789] 7,671] 2,861) 20.6 | 16.7 | 37.3 
Five camps at- 
tacked (Sept. 
22-24)3....... 42,267) 7,399) 2,591| 21.2 | 17.3 | 35. 
Five camps at- 
tacked (Sept. 
29-Oct.1)4.... 
Five camps at- 
tacked (Oct. 
SoD) BE snes 
32,932] 6,818) 2,280) 21.8 | 20.7 | 33.6 
17,307] 1,236) 210) 22.8} 7.1] 17.8 
As the pandemic has progressed the propor- 
tion of soldiers attacked has increased, and 
the proportion developing pneumonia has in- 
creased while the fatality of the pneumonia 
has diminished. These differences have been 
slight, but they seem to be unmistakable. If 
these figures are fully substantiated by later 
2 Devens, Upton, Lee, Dix, Jackson. 
3 Grant, Taylor, Sevier, Pike, Newport News. 
4Sherman, Dodge, Shelby, Custer, Travis. 
® Cody, Forrest, MacArthur, Wadsworth, Green- 
leaf. 
