The Effects of tropical light on white men / by Major Chas. E. Woodruff.

  • Woodruff, Charles Edward, 1860-1915.
Date:
1905
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    of climate better than women, but experience does not prove this to be the case. It is also a strange fact, which may be only a coincidence, that I have known more men returning from a tropical climate with a breakdown of the nervous system than women. Proper Age He might have added that only young men should go there. My own statistics show that the best age is from twenty to thirty or thirty-five, before that time the system is too immature and more die; after thirty-five there is physical decay and greater, sick- ness. No man over fifty-five should dare to go there except for a short visit and even numerous old visi- tors have died before they could get away. It would be better to keep all army officers over fifty at home, or even those over forty-five, but that is not practi- cable. Civil service candidates should be limited to those under thirty. Invaliding and Pensions Every government employee sent to the Philip- pines for prolonged tour of duty has his life shortened thereby, for it is nonsense to teach that the damage can be wholly repaired. If the American people have no regard for the lives of their servants they should be made to pay for the damage done in serving there; yet in damaging the servants we get less work out of them from that time forward, have an in- creased expense also from more pensions and greater retired lists and are doing the most expensive thing