Abstract of report on the origin and spread of typhoid fever in U.S. military camps during the Spanish war of 1898 / by Walter Reed ... Victor C. Vaughan ... and Edward O. Shakespeare.

  • United States. Surgeon-General's Office.
Date:
1900
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Credit: Abstract of report on the origin and spread of typhoid fever in U.S. military camps during the Spanish war of 1898 / by Walter Reed ... Victor C. Vaughan ... and Edward O. Shakespeare. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    Results obtained loith loater- from Camp George H. Thomas, etc.—Continued. Location of well or spring. Fermentation test. No. i 3 m >> >> a o o >, XI o Condition of water. 39 40 41 43 43 Well on Jay's Mill road, 200 feet south of Brotherton road. Jay's Mill spring Well on Reed's Bridge road, at Brannans (Peter's i house. Weil on the Jay's Mill branch, 400 yards west of Brannan's house. Well on Reed's Bridge road, half- waj- between Second Minne- sota monument and the road from the tower. Crawfish Spring, at Leiter Hos- pital, outside. Crawfish Spriug water, from Lei- ter Hospital faucet. Glucose Lactose Glucose do Cm. 3.4 3. .5 3.8 3.0 Cm. 4.6 10.0 6.5 r..5 Cm. 9.0 n.o Max. 8.3 Cm. Max. Max. Max. Opaque; very cloudy. Clouded; rust col- ored. Clear. Clouded. Opaque; dirty look- ing. Clear. 44 4,5 Do. Acting Asst. Surg. Charles F. Craig in his report from the bacteri- ological laboratory of Sternberg Hospital, to be appended later, gives some information concerning the bacteriology of some of the waters in the park. However, as his report refers chieflj' to the existence of malaria, we will give the results of his work under that head. In order to show that many of the medical oflBcers at Chickamauga Park realized the gravity of the situation early in the season, we give from the large list of papers in our possession the following: Headquarters First Brigade, Third Division, First Army Corps, Camp George H. Thomas, Chickamauga, (^t., June 27, 1898. Sir: O'wing to the amount of diarrheal trouble and the increase of typhoid and other fevers in this brigade, I have the honor to recommend that the command be required to use only boiled water for drinking purposes. The i^resent directions for boiling water are not carried out. This is partly due to the want of i^roper utensils and facilities for storing water. I would recommend that ordinary wash boilers be obtained for boiling the water, and the proper number oi: barrels for storing and cooling it be jprocured, but that the command be required to utilize such things as they may have until the desired equipment has been obtained. As the rear sinks are infected by the excreta of patients with typhoid fever, I would recommend that chloride of lime be obtained in large quantities for their disinfection, and that every man using the sinks be required to use earth, or a mixture of earth and lime, at once, so that at no time will excreta be exposed to the air and flies. As this is a very important matter, I would recommend that urgent measures be taken to procure the boilers, barrels, and lime at once, without regard t j the ordinary methods of business. I remain, very respectfully, J. D. Glennan, Major and Surgeon, V. S. V., Brigade Surgeon. The Assistant Adjutant-General, First Brigade, Third Division, First Army Corps.