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3elt;fRATE SOARS/•. tv 'Ofisend«d(Continued ,/rom page 1)in-whlt;ho*derwasdaystalground forces contributed substan-*.1 tfaUy to the overall 50 percent fort I crease, but the upward trend was general in all branches of tho ser-vice. . ..f' ' * 1 4Ihe sharp rise among combat N troops began as fighting slackened The and snowballed after the German whl ^ I surrender, as indicated by the fol- tho kel lowing table of new cases in Ger- Klil manyduring a six-week period: PacWEEK BND NEW OASIS hlt;^V* 'if' •»’ * • -M •' I *TAprtt se ...................... n } . *April %1......................... 197 riotMay « ................... ** whlnay-n 4............ «0i «May IS ............. 7OT 1May .................. 9S7From last September until the E middle of April venereal disease j dr* among H-S. ground forces in the 1# BTO, excluding the UK, stood at a sow fairly constant level of about 201 ®*a cases per 1,000 men per year. |-«0 Toward the end of April the ratsbegan to skyrocket until it reached,I in the week ending May 25, the rate of eg,per l,O0(Mnenjper year,allAir Forcesand Com- Z—VD remained at about 48 oases per 1,0001 2 men per year from September until Th the middle of April. May 28 the rate JBvi for all troops was 78 per 1,000 men Be per year. sajFigures for the week ended May cl» 25 indicated that the sources of 1 infection in Germany were scat- hit tered .and not concentrated largely atin one city, as is the case in France. I he Erfurt had 15 new cases, Frankfurt, I hw 12, Heidelberg, 11, Leipzig, 20 and P«Wiesbaden, 18. d«lt;w
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Southern France Stars and Stripes
Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d Azur, FR
Fri, Jun 22, 1945
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