The New York Times/1918/01/16/149 Deaths in Camps Caused by Pneumonia
Weekly Report Shows Fewer Fatalities, but Increase in Hospital Admission Rate.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Pneumonia caused 149 of the 235 deaths reported among the National Guardsmen and national army men training in this country in the week ended Jan. 11. The weekly report of the Division of Field Sanitation, made public tonight, shows that eighty-eight guardsmen died, as compared with 109 the week before, and 147 national army men as against 167 the previous week.
Both the hospital admission and non-effective rates in the guard and national army camps increased for the week, with pneumonia generally prevalent. Among the guardsmen there were 342 new cases of pneumonia, and in the national army 340. The meningitis situation continued to improve in both the guard and national army, while measles continued to decline in most camps. Epidemics of German measles and mumps prevailed in many camps, with scarlet fever increasing in the national army and decreasing in the national guard.
Camp Doniphan, Okla., led the guard camps in the number of new cases of pneumonia, with 50, and Camp Wheeler, Ga., was second with 47. Camps MacArthur, Texas; Bowie, Texas, and Beauregard, La., were above the average in the number of new cases with 45, 46, and 36 cases respectively.
Camp Travis, Texas, headed the national army camps with new cases of pneumonia with 94, against 72 the week before. Camp Pike, Ark., was second with 41 cases, and Camps Lee, Va., and Taylor, Ky., reported 24 and 34 new cases respectively. The week before there were 59 new cases at Camp Lee.
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