Abstract

Pneumonia among Soldiers and Civilians

The present winter season has been an unusually severe one, and the morbidity and mortality from pneumonia in army and pneumonia has been very high. Overcrowding, insufficient clothing, and an inadequate provision for trained nurses, which necessitated reliance on untrained orderlies, must be in part held responsible for veritable epidemics in some of the camps. Not withstanding these untoward conditions, the death-rate has not been much above the average. Pulmonary tuberculosis frequently develops after an attack of pneumonia. Among soldiers this development of tuberculosis is of course quite as frequent as among the civilian population. No special climatic advantages are necessary; pure air, quiet, and easy accessibility with ordinary sanitary equipment being all that is necessary for a home for the convalescent pneumonic.