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.
- Walter Reed
- Date:
- 1900
Licence: In copyright
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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![It will be seen from these figures that the loss of life was materially increased by sending these troops to Porto Rico. The following table gives figures showing the most important facts concerning typhoid fever in the First Ai’iny Corps: Note.—The regiments marked * went to Porto Rico. For these regiments the “ Total deaths and “ Deaths from typhoid ” are those which occurred at Chickamauga. Date of first case. Total number of cases. Number of rec- ognized cases. Total deaths. Deaths from typhoid. Per cent of deaths among probawe cases. Per cent of deaths among recognized cases. FIRST DIVISION. IB^rst Brigade. *lst Kentucky June 19 262 86 13 6 2.29 6.81 3d Wisconsin May 24 378 107 14 9 2.38 8.41 5th Illinois May 16 125 113 16 8 6.40 7.08 Second Brigade. May 17 11 - do... 546 149 24 11 2.01 7..^ * 4rth Pennsylvania June 1 21 14 Third Brigade. * Ibtli Pennsylvania May 8 13 2d Wisconsin May 11 329 113 32 23 7 20.3 3d Kentucky June 9 219 17 11 .5.02 SECOND DIVISION. First Brigade. 31st Michigan June 1 239 86 27 16 6.69 18.60 160th Indiana •luly 4 223 47 11 8 3.58 17.02 1st Georgia June 6 120 36 10 9 7.50 25 Second Brigade. 158th Indiana June 6 128 49 12 10 7.81 20.40 6th Ohio May 18 291 148 21 19 6.52 12.83 1st West Virginia J line 6 260 106 15 12 4.61 11.31 Third Brigade. 1st Pennsylvania May 12 222 169 14 12 5.40 7.10 14th Minnesota May 27 286 146 11 10 3.49 6.&5 2d Ohio May 20 403 192 14 13 3.22 6. t * THIRD DIVISION. First Brigade. 5th Pennsylvania .. May 19 338 152 16 16 4.73 10.52 12th Minnesota May 20 433 144 20 19 4.38 13.19 1st South Carolina 20 10 Second Brigade. 8th Massachusetts May 28 272 157 30 19 - 12.10 21st Kansas May 21 294 95 23 21 7.14 22.10 12 th New York June 6 490 144 21 20 4 13.88 Third Brigade. 2d Missouri May 26 268 181 20 19 7.08 10.49 1st New Hampshire May 24 297 ■ 213 :12 ;» 10 14.13 nth Pennsylvania May 31 3!)4 155 28 28 7.78 16.77 Total number of cases of probable typhoid fever in this corps, exchiding the 7 regiments that went to Porto Rico and the First Sotith Carolina 5,242 Aggregate strength of these 1!) regiments 24,235 Percentage of typhoid fever among these 19 regiments 21.62 Total number of deaths from ty])hoid fever in these 19 regiments ... 298](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28063223_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
