SAVING SOLDIERS’ LIVES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 115, 17 May 1916, Page 2

SAVING SOLDIERS’ LIVES.

D'r C. W. Galeehy, in aa address on “Saving our Soldiers’ Lives,” delivered at a recent meeting of the London Sanitary Inspector’s • Association, said the importance of the subject was obvious when it was told them that our infantry wastage was 15 per cent, per month, as Mr Tennant had declared in the House of Commons. Ho presumed that he meant the units actually engaged in the firing line. Anything that would cut down such an appalling figure concerned them profoundly. In all previous wary bacilli had been more deadly that bullets. The death-rate from twphoid had been Ml times as high amongst the 5 per cent, of the tnoops who had declined to Ih> inoculated as as amongst the others. Tetanus, he pointed out |had been largely abolished by antoitoxin. Not one G.erman prisoner in tliis country had suffered from typhus fvrfver. and he should count it an out--1 rage on our good name if one of them did. But scores of English prisoners in Germany had been foully murdered by typhus fever, although the Govmans knew as much about it as wo did , and could make it absolutely impossible for any of our men to die from the disease. Our men had died in scores, and he put that record along with the worst that the Zeppelins and the submarines had done, This was murder,, and it was murder(Jrs whom we had to settle with.