Typhoid, the destroyer of armies, and its abolition ; The theory of air-borne typhoid in armies / by Leigh Canney.

  • Canney, Leigh.
Date:
1901
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    (half the death-rate) in India and many foreign stations in times of peace. 9. Lastly, the adoption of the scheme can at least do no harm, and 100 years of the laissez-boire theory has seen nothing but the most terrible results. The R.A.M.C. has more than the capacity required to carry it out, and should be able to promise complete success, provided that the men and officers of the whole army will assist their efforts by compliance with rules laid down, and in this matter the public, the House of Commons, and administrators have an evident duty. If men, officers, and country refuse it, then let them accept in future, without complaint against the Medical Corps, and without the paltry subterfuges of * hospital commissions,’ or ‘ medical scandals,’the in- evitable result in store for them. Let them remem- ber they may lay down future typhoid hospitals, provide armies of nurses, beds innumerable, in- dependent transport, and yet they will not make typhoid fever and dysentery comfortable diseases in war. The Commission lately appointed by the House of Commons has been altogether ‘ off the lines,’ and it has been put * off the lines ’ by men like Mr. Asquith and Mr. Burdett-Coutts, amateurs, who entirely under-estimated the value of medical men on the Commission, and finally sent these able Commis- sioners up and down South Africa to ask questions about whether men were comfortable with their typhoid and dysentery at Bloemfontein. Speaking professionally, was anything ever done more con-
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