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Deaths in Military Camps

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 22, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 38.

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Deaths in Military Camps

It is a sad thing in these days of sanitary and hygienic enlightenment to find that peace is slaying in camps more of the very flower of the country, physically, in less time than did the ravages of war. There were a little over 1,400 Americans killed and wounded in the Spanish-American war; but over 3,000 at last reports have died in camp. Something is the matter somewhere. In the investigation to be conducted, may justice fall where it should.