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STATISTICS (SHOWING THE HEALTH OF TROOPS) FOR THE FOUR MILITARY CAMPS, 1916, Fouu Reinforcement Camps. Average annual strength. 11,722. Admitted into hospital, 12,048. Average number constantly sick, 230-65. Deaths.—ln camp; Disease, 85; accident, I; suicide, 3; poison (accident), 1 : total, 90. Out of camp : Disease, 7 (in hospital); accident, 7: total, 14. Total deaths, 104. Table showing the Admissions into Hospital by Diseases and the Number constantly sick amour/ the Troops of the Expeditionary Force in the Dominion for the Year 1916. Estimated average annual strength, 11,772. Average sick time to each soldier, 2'li days. Average duration of each ease of sickness, 7'ol days.

Disease. Admission to Hospital. L Deaths. Average Number constantly sick. I I General Diseases. Group A. — Cerebro-spinal fever ., Cow-pox Chicken-pox. . Diphtheria . . . . Influenza Enteric fever Enteritis, infective German measles Measles Scarlet fever Whooping-cough Paratyphoid Mumps 51 9 7 6 5.527 5 2 36 I 2 3-77 0-07 0-26 0-31 06-07 0-08 0 02 447 86-83 0-91 0-01 o-o.", 0-06 117 2,155 15 1 I I 2 Group 11— ■ Dengue Dysentery .. 2 - 6 0-02 0-05 ( rl'OUp ('■ Malaria ■ 0-01 ((roup I) Pyrexia of uncertain origin 5 0-09 (Iroup E- - Erysipelas Ostca myelitis Periostitis .. Pyapmia Septicemia Inflammation of lymphatic glands Inflammation of connective tissue Abscess of connective tissue Boils Carbuncle Onychia Dicer Whitlow 4 2 4 2 3 I I 27 30 56 7 12 29 8 0-18 0-01 (HI 0-1,1 0-18 0-14 0-36 0-51 1-00 0-14 0-15 0-48 0-10 Group FTetanus I 0-05 Group G — Pneumonia Rheumatic fever Sore throat Tonsilitis 91 97 103 115 39 4 -72 I -74 1-16 1-31 Group H— Tubercle of lung Other tubercular diseases 15 3 2 0-57 0-09 Group I- —• Gonorrhoea Syphilis Soft chancre 356 9 7. 13-17 043 0-09