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.

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    regiments were malarial, and from the data at our command we liave been unable with any certainty to distinguish the malarial from the typhoid fevers in the cases originating in Porto Rico. From the death rate in these commands we believe tha^ we have not overesti- mated the number of cases of typhoid fever in them. However, we think it best, on account of the uncertainty in the data among these regiments, to leave them out of consideration in making general state- ments concerning the statistics of typhoid fever in the First and Third Army Corps. There were only two regiments (Fifth Illinois and Third Kentucky) of the First Division of the First Army Corps that did not go to Porto Rico. These two regiments had a combined strength of.. _ 2,589 Total number of cases of probable typhoid fever in these two regiments 344 Percentage of probable typhoid fever among the troops of these two regiments 13.28 Total number of deaths from typhoid fever in these two regiments .. 19 Percentage of deaths among cases of probable typhoid fever in these two regiments... . , 5.52 We can not give the total number of cases of recognized typhoid fever in these two regiments on account of having no data on this point for the Third Kentucky. Aggregate strength of the Second Division of the First Army Corps 11,344 Total number of cases of j)roba.ble typhoid fever in the Second Division of the First Army Corps 2,172 Percentage of probable typhoid fever among the troops of the Second Division of the First Army Corps .- 19.14 Total number of deaths from typhoid fever in the Second Division of the First Army Corps . - - .• 109 Percentage of deaths among probable cases of typhoid fever in the Second Division of the First Army Corps '. . ..... 5.01 Total number of cases of recognized typhoid fever in the Second Division of tiie First Array Corps __- 979 Percentage of deaths among recognized cases of typhoid fever in the Second Division of the first Army Corps -.. .-- - 11.13 In studying the Third Division of the First Army Corps, it will be necessary to omit the First South Carolina, which remained at Chicka- mauga only a few days. Aggregate strength of the eight regiments of the Third Division of the First Army Corps 10,303 Total number of cases of probable typhoid fever in the eight regiments of the Third Division of the First Army Corps. . -. . 2,726 Percentage of probable typhoid fever among the troops of the eight regi- ments of the Third Division of the First Army Corps ■. 26.46 Total number of deaths from typhoid fever in the eight regiments of the Third Division of the First Army Corps _ 170 Percentage of deaths among probable cases of typhoid fever in the eight regiments of the Third Division of the First Army Corps 6.23