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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Nov 29, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 48.

Japan’s Wartime Sanitation

A lesson in medical science—perhaps we might call it hygienic common sense—has been given to the world by Japan. Before the late war in the Orient the universal military theory was that four men would die of disease to every one killed by the enemy. The San Francisco Examiner sums it up in this brief paragraph:

The Japanese fought one of the greatest wars of modern times, with larger armies than we employed against the South, amid extremes of climate, and they did it without letting a single epidemic get headway among their massed half million soldiers. They kept the disease statistics almost to the point they are in peace times, and instead of losing four men in five of the total of mortality by sickness, they lost only one in six.