The New York Times/1918/03/29/Camp Deaths Increase

CAMP DEATHS INCREASE.

Pneumonia Takes Heavy Toll, but Epidemic Diseases Decline.

WASHINGTON, March 28.—Although health conditions in general among the troops training in this country are described in this week's report of the division of field sanitation as "very good," deaths among the soldiers increased from 180 the week before to 223. Pneumonia increased in the national army and regulars, but in the National Guard all epidemic diseases are declining.

Deaths in the regular army last week were 86, as against 71 the week before; in the National Guard, 20, as against 28, and in the national army, 117, as against 81. Seventy-three of the deaths in the national army and 7 of those in the National Guard were caused by pneumonia.

Only 76 new cases of pneumonia were reported from the National Guard camps, but in the national army camps 287 new cases of this disease were reported, as against 255 the week before. Mumps and influenza prevail in many national army camps, and some measles and meningitis are reported.