HEALTH STANDARDS
TROOPS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. IMPROVEMENT AS COMPARED WITH LAST WAR. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) CAIRO, August 7. A medical officer emphasises the improvement in the health of the British troops in the Middle East compared with the case in the last war. The latest medical knowledge and equipment, he stated, has reduced the incidence of dysentry, malaria and typhoid, and so far there has been no typhus or influenza. ' The officer instanced the South African War, when there were 288 cases of enteric fever per 1000 troops each year, compared with 1.89 per 1000 in Egypt in the Great War and 0.0 Z in the whole of the Middle East in this war. Malaria has dropped from 3.5 per 1000 to 0.58 and typhoid from 1.89 to 0.07. Venereal diseases show only a slight reduction.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1941, Page 4
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138HEALTH STANDARDS Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1941, Page 4
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