HEALTH OF THE FLEET.
An interesting article has been written by Surgeon-General H. G. Rolleston, consultant physician to the Royal Navy, on the health of the fighting services. He records with satisfaction that as the result of the labours of those responsible for sanitation, the health of both forces, with the exception of the men at the Dardanelles, has been remarkably good. The health of the navy has been better than in peace time. In the Grand Fleet the number of men on the sick list is under 1 per cent, “The nervous strain of the war,” writes Surgeon-General Rolleston, “ would naturally be expected to produce much insanity, mental disturbance, and neurasthenia, My impression is that, in the navy at least, this anticipation has not been fully realised.” In a recent paper giving the experience on board a battleship, it was stated that mental troubles of a really serious nature occurred in less than 1 per cent., and mild neurasthenic conditions in less than 4 per cent.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1525, 21 March 1916, Page 4
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167HEALTH OF THE FLEET. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1525, 21 March 1916, Page 4
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