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LORD KITCHENER'S TRIBUTE. DIFFICULTY OF GRAPPLING WITH DISEASE IN INDIA. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 4, 8.50 p.m. London, October 4. Lord Kitchener, addressing the Medical School at Middlesex Hospital, paid a tribute to the medical corps in India. Enteric was yielding to improved sanitation and inoculation, which was almost universal. Enteric would shortly join cholera in total banishment from the barracks. During the last decade the ratio of men constantly sick and invalided and deaths had been reduced 50 per cent. 'Malaria still baffles all efforts, Methods which were successful in Khartoum were impossible in India, where the native sanitation and water supply were outside British control. There were three hundreds millions of Indians, mostly living in insanitary and overcrowded cities. The difficulty of dealing with them lay in evolving methods not conflicting with the traditions of the ages.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 151, 5 October 1910, Page 5
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143WORK OF MEDICAL CORPS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 151, 5 October 1910, Page 5
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