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Casualties in the Medical Corps of the British Army
A R M Y AND NAVY.
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A MEDICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR THE AMERICAN RED CROSS. In order to provide expert advice for the War Council of the American Red Cross in questions of sanitation and pub lic health arising out of war conditions, a medical advisory committee has been appointed as follows: Dr. Simon Plexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute, chairman; Dr. John W. Kerr, assistant surgeon-general, United States Public Health Service; Dr. Herman M. Biggs, director of the New York State Depart ment of Health; Dr. William H. Welch, dean of the School of Hygiene, John Hop kins University; Dr. Frank Billings, pro fessor of medicine, University of Chi cago; Dr. M. J. Rosenau, professor of
preventive medicine, Harvard Univers ity; Mr. Wickliffe Rose, director of the International Health Board; Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, professor of hygiene, Uni versity of Michigan; Dr. Charles V. Chapin, department of health, Provi dence, R. I.; Dr. Richard P. Strong, pro fessor of tropical medicine, Harvard Un iversity; Dr. Richard M. Pearce, profes sor of research medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Ex-officio members: Col. Jefferson R. Kean, director-general, department of military relief, and Dr. T. W. Richards, assistant director-general.—■TheJournal o f
the American Medical Association.
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CASUALTIES IN THE MEDICAL CORPS OF THE BRITISH ARMY. beginning of the war to Ju ne-23, were: killed, 195 ; wounded, 707 ; . died of dis ease, 62. Hence the total number of casualties from actual war injuries on the Western front was 902, of which 195 were killed. This is entirety different from some of the statements which have received wide publicity in this country — some even semi-official in character— which have reacted to the detriment of the efforts to secure officers for the Med ical Reserve Corps.—'The Journal o f the
There has been such an astounding amount of misinformation, exaggerated and sensational statements, published in this country regarding the casualties among medical officers in the British Army that Col. T. H. Goodwin of the British Army Medical Service, now in this country, cabled to the British War Office for the actual facts. He received the following data: The total casualties among medical officers of the British forces, on the Western front, from the
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O U R DUTY. The war in Europe has wrought great havoc; it has destroyed millions of lives, has maimed and crippled many men, has littered the fields with shells of destruc tion, dismantled cities, and crumbled in to dust some of the most stately edifices, both secular and religious, ever conceiv
ed in the brain of man or reared by his hands. Civilization is not to be lost, and the upward progress o f the race is not to be permanently arrested. The potent saving factor in this great catastrophe is scientific medicine. Had disease fol lowed these great armies in like propor
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A MEDICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR THE AMERICAN RED CROSS. In order to provide expert advice for the War Council of the American Red Cross in questions of sanitation and pub lic health arising out of war conditions, a medical advisory committee has been appointed as follows: Dr. Simon Plexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute, chairman; Dr. John W. Kerr, assistant surgeon-general, United States Public Health Service; Dr. Herman M. Biggs, director of the New York State Depart ment of Health; Dr. William H. Welch, dean of the School of Hygiene, John Hop kins University; Dr. Frank Billings, pro fessor of medicine, University of Chi cago; Dr. M. J. Rosenau, professor of
preventive medicine, Harvard Univers ity; Mr. Wickliffe Rose, director of the International Health Board; Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, professor of hygiene, Uni versity of Michigan; Dr. Charles V. Chapin, department of health, Provi dence, R. I.; Dr. Richard P. Strong, pro fessor of tropical medicine, Harvard Un iversity; Dr. Richard M. Pearce, profes sor of research medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Ex-officio members: Col. Jefferson R. Kean, director-general, department of military relief, and Dr. T. W. Richards, assistant director-general.—■TheJournal o f
the American Medical Association.
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CASUALTIES IN THE MEDICAL CORPS OF THE BRITISH ARMY. beginning of the war to Ju ne-23, were: killed, 195 ; wounded, 707 ; . died of dis ease, 62. Hence the total number of casualties from actual war injuries on the Western front was 902, of which 195 were killed. This is entirety different from some of the statements which have received wide publicity in this country — some even semi-official in character— which have reacted to the detriment of the efforts to secure officers for the Med ical Reserve Corps.—'The Journal o f the
There has been such an astounding amount of misinformation, exaggerated and sensational statements, published in this country regarding the casualties among medical officers in the British Army that Col. T. H. Goodwin of the British Army Medical Service, now in this country, cabled to the British War Office for the actual facts. He received the following data: The total casualties among medical officers of the British forces, on the Western front, from the
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American Medical Association. te
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O U R DUTY. The war in Europe has wrought great havoc; it has destroyed millions of lives, has maimed and crippled many men, has littered the fields with shells of destruc tion, dismantled cities, and crumbled in to dust some of the most stately edifices, both secular and religious, ever conceiv
ed in the brain of man or reared by his hands. Civilization is not to be lost, and the upward progress o f the race is not to be permanently arrested. The potent saving factor in this great catastrophe is scientific medicine. Had disease fol lowed these great armies in like propor