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FLU HITS U. S. TROOPSBecomes Epidemic at CampGrant and Great Lakes-i: Outbreak Among American Soldiers inGermany Assumes AlarmingProportions.Washington. Jan. i’l.—Influenza has; become epidemic among American soldi ers at Camp ft rant ami Rockford, ft!., and ihe Great Lakes naval training station. Surgeon' General Ireland of the army announced.Smaller epidemics have been reported from Love Field, Tex., and Fort Sheridan, 111. General Ireland said,and ihe disease is prevalent amongAmerican troops in Europe.I The incidence of pneumonia Unis fark i has hoon low, General Ireland said.■Sand the type of the disease appears loj \ he mild.. j In view, however, of ihe appearance » of the disease, medical officers have been instructed to carry out regnla-; lions providing for adequate floor } space a n d cuhie a i r spa ce i n ha rra ck s ; and hospital wards, proper ventilation, i masking of cases, preventi«*n of use oficommon drinking cups and adequaie clothing* and bedding.The out break among tin* American troops in Germany has assumed more alarming proportions, wilh IOfl new ; cases reported there for the week end* ed January 9. an increase of flf over : the week before. Thej*o aha were S\ ' new cases of pneumonia.I The outbreak of influenza in ther• I Coblenz command is accompanied hv »( a marked increase in the death rate i for the troops in Europe. For the* week ended January 9 the annual• *i death rate for . disease was flO pers j 1,000, as against iho rate* of threeiper 1,000 the week before. Twelve | deaths, six from pneumonia and five from measles, were recorded,
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Goshen Daily Democrat
Goshen, Indiana, US
Wed, Jan 21, 1920
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