The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1915. WHAT SCIENCE DOES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 81, 9 April 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1915. WHAT SCIENCE DOES.

That science marches forward on all roads is made more evident every day in the phases of the great war which continues to shock the world and stiil takes paramount place in the breathless interest of the whole human race. Not only have terrible engines for the destruction of life made their first appearance in this conflict but, as a setoff, perhaps, medical skill and improved sanitation have made a remarkable difference in the mortality from causes other than actual wounding. An interesting article in the "American Museum Journal" is devoted to the quest ion of the hygiene of the various armies in the field of war, in which it is pointed out that in the Crimean war of 1853-56 the mortality from bullets and wounds in action amounted to 118,.'512 officers and men. In the last great war for which statistics are available, that of the Russo-Japanese campaign, the mortality bill, notwithstanding that the number of troops in each war was 1,400,500, and 1,200,000 respectively, only amounted to 58,887 deaths from bullets and wounds, and 27.000 from disease. In the Boer war the British lost over I 1,000 men from disease, and less than SOOO from bullet and other wounds. The chief diseases of the camp are those which, like typhoid fever, are caused by pollution of the water supply, whilst the chief reme-

dies are inoculation, a close watch on hygienic conditions, and the valuable work of the (ted Cross section. An interesting diagram showing the com-] parative dietar.y scale, in energy allow-! ance in calorics, is given, which shows that, as it should be, Kussia with 1925)' calorics, heads the list, closely followed' by the French with 33-10, the British j with 3292, the German with :il IT, and! the Austrian with 2620. Krom this it would appeal- that the dietary scale of the Austrian army is least calculated to stand the extreme cold of the Carpathian campaign. The splendid condition of all the Allies' armies and the way in which they have come through the terrible hardships of the winter campaign proves that here again the German assumption of superiority was' wrong.