Notes on preventive medicine for medical officers, United States Navy : instructions to medical officers / Department of the Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.

  • United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Date:
1918
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    WELLCOME LIBRARY 5 | General Collections —a fs No ee ee | CONFIDENTIAL. aE a BU cee . 49. [M. & S. Na | ivtson or Satta. j Notes-on Preventive Medicine for Medical Officers, United States INSTRUCTIONS TO MEDICAL OFFICERS. 129655—1.] Platian DEPARTMENT OF THE Navy, Bureau or MEDICINE AND SURGERY, Washington, D. C., November 2, 1918. Nores ON THE PRESENT Eprpemic or INFLUENZA. Up to and including November 2, 1918, there have been reported from all ships and stations 60,625 cases of influenza, with 3,062 deaths. These figures do not include the number of new cases and the number of deaths occurring in ships of the Atlantic Battleship Fleet for the week ended November 2, 1918. There are included, however, 1,290 old cases not previously reported. There were 1,947 cases reported during the week ended November 2, 1918, as compared with 2,991 for the previous week. Figures for the week ended October 26 have been corrected to date. The following table furnishes the latest information of a statistical nature: New cases, week ended— Total influ- Total Case fatality enza to date, deaths. rate, percent. : Nov. 2. Oct. 26. ») First maval district, Boston area................-26202. 68220 3, 996 83 52 21h oh SbvSS Seite a vaomeiunict, Portsmouth atea.........0256-.-.-2-.265 575 8 8 30 5. 04 Second naval district, Newport area, exclusive of training BIA Dy e'-<d a> « - RET Sis ok ends arco jee kos ven eo aes 1, 140 zg 33 \ 158 5. 69 Naval training station, Newpori, R.1...............--...--- 1, 635 5 6 : District section base, New London, Conn...........---.---- 800 9 13 \ 47 4.93 Submarine base, New London, Conn..............-......--- 153 2 10 : Third naval district, exclusive of Pelham Park............--. 5, 099 267 390 270 5. 29 Naval waimine camp, Pelham Park.-...--.......--<.2--..-: 2, 612 28 56 108 4,13 Fourth naval district, exclusive of receiving ship at Philadel- phia and Wissahickon Barracks, Cape May, N. J........---. 2, 105 56 70 | iecetumenipiat Philadelphia, Pa.-.........1+...+--.--+..- 1, 278 6 3 237 6. 56 Wissahickon Barracks, Cape May, N. J.........----.-------- 22 0 3 Fifth naval district, exclusive of training station, Hampton Roads, Va., receiving ship at Norfolk, Quantico, and Annap-| - SEIS SaaS pee ieaes eter areca ne 1, 047 10 29 \ 43 cn Receiving ship at Norfolk..........--.-----+--------+++-+++-- 1, 053 3 10 : Naval training station, Hampton Roads, Va...--..--..---.-- 3, 143 60 27 166 5. 28 Marine barracks, Rrmusitney, Vaion koe 2 Se donee cscs nacens 2,518 195 75 90 3.57 Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. (midshipmen)..........-..- 1, 071 2 3 10 . 93 Naval Academy, other personnel..............-.--------+--- 1, 018 0 13 ay 1. 67 Sixth naval district, exclusive of training camp, Charleston, S. O., and marine barracks, Paris Island, 8. C..........-.. 857 12 36 } 50 2.61 Navaltraining camp, Charleston, 8. C. ....2...4...........- 1, 056 74 90 . Martine patracks, Paris Island, 8. C........ 2.2... Sasi ev... 635 283 207 6 .94 Seventh naval district, exclusive of naval station, Key West, ey Se FO ee Of ee ee 280 4 30 \ 28 3.56 - Naval training camp and air station, Key West, Fla......... 506 21 14 iv Domemoeir eeeetom, Miemat, Fio.......5-.2.......2-2- 2-2 ees 353 4 12 10 2. 83 Eighth naval district, exclusive of naval station, New Orleans, naval station, Pensacola, and naval training camp, Gulf- ecu, .... _ See, Peeper ener se. ora eee 294 a0 48 i 2. 38 M | le RR RE GSTS as Sa a nC an 1, 001 11 32 34 3. 39 MER ois os tebe tee aes so eas oe os oe 1, 469 20 25 24 1. 63 Gemmemort, Miss....-.-......---...--05. 868 3 46 20 2. 30 6014 a