117. Admissions for tuberculosis, pulmonary, chronic, by State of nativity,
with ratio to civil population, 20 to 29 years (1890 census)..
118. Admissions from tuberculosis by camps, with ratios per 1,000 mean
strength, United States enlisted men, for September to December, 1917,
inclusive....
144. External agents producing traumatisms, Army, total, including officers.
145. Number of traumatisms with infections and complications and dispositions.
146. Annual death rate per 1,000 in Army compared with leading cities in the
United States (age 20 to 29 years, time October, 1917, to March, 1918, in-
clusive)....
147. Annual death rate per 1,000 in United States Army within cantonment
limits of United States, based on period Sept. 29, 1917, to Mar. 29,
1918....
149. Admission rates, posts, Philippine Islands, absolute numbers, 1916 and
1917...
167. Strength of Dental Corps, by months, from June 30, 1917, to June 30, 1918
168. Changes in Dental Corps from June 30, 1917, to June 30, 1918..
169. Strength of Dental Reserve Corps, by months and grades, June 30, 1917,
to June 30, 1918..
IX. Days lost in hospital and total days lost (noneffective) from disease
and from traumatism, by countries, enlisted men, for the year 1917,
with ratios per 1,000 mean strength..
X. Admissions, discharges, deaths, and total days lost from disease, en-
listed men in United States, by nativity.
XIII. Surgical operations performed on officers and enlisted men of the
Army during the calendar year 1917....
XIV. Admissions to sick report, total Army (including officers, American
and native troops), for the year 1917, at home and abroad.
Absolute numbers..
XV. Admissions to sick report, total Army (including officers, American
and native troops), for the year 1917, at home and abroad. Ratios
per 1,000 of mean strength..
XVI. Discharges for disability, total Army (including officers, American
and native troops), for the year 1917, at home and abroad.
Absolute numbers..
XVII. Discharges for disability, total Army (including officers, American
and native troops), for the year 1917, at home and abroad. Ratios
per 1,000 mean strength...
XVIII. Deaths, total Army (including officers, American and native troops),
for the year 1917, at home and abroad. Absolute numbers..
XIX. Deaths, total Army (including officers, American and native troops),
for the year 1917, at home and abroad. Ratios per 1,000 mean
strength..
XX. Total days lost, total noneffective, total Army (including officers,
American and native troops), for the year 1917, at home and abroad.
Absolute numbers...
XXI. Total days lost, total noneffective, total Army (including officers,
American and native troops), for the year 1917, at home and
abroad. Ratios per 1,000 mean strength...
2. Death rate of enlisted men (American troops) and male Swedes, 1821-1910.
3. Rates, American troops, all countries, all causes, 1908-1917...
4. Rates, American troops, all countries, disease only, 1908-1917.
5. Admissions, discharges, deaths and noneffective rates, enlisted men in
United States, all causes, 1908-1917...
8. Strength by months, egular Army, National Guard, National Army, 1917
9. Monthly increment of Army, February to December, 1917..
10 to 39. Figures giving weekly strength of each of large camps, September to
December, 1917, and draft increments for same.
40. Rates, American troops at home and abroad, disease only, 1917.
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44. Discharges, American troops in other countries, 1917, disease.
45. Admission and discharge rate for 10 leading diseases for United States,
Europe and other countries, American and native troops, for year, 1917...
46. Deaths and noneffective rate for 10 leading diseases, for United States,
Europe and other countries, American and native troops, for year 1917....
47. Map of United States, showing relative density of each State..
48. Map, showing distribution of measles by State of nativity.
49. Correlation between admissions by nativity and urbanity of State.
50. Philadelphia and New York City, average weekly case rates from measles,
1906-1912...
51. Measles (total), admission and death rates, per 1,000 mean strength, by
camps, United States enlisted men, September to December, inclusive,
1917..
52. Measles, admission rates per 1,000 mean strength, by camps, United States
enlisted men, September to December, inclusive, 1917..
53. Measles, death rates, per 1,000 mean strength, by camps, United States
enlisted men, September to December, inclusive. 1917.....
54. Map showing distribution of lobar pneumonia, by State of nativity.
55. Lobar pneumonia, admission and death dates per 1,000 mean strength, by
camps, United States enlisted men, September to December, inclusive,
56. Lobar pneumonia, by State of nativity and State of occurrence, United
States Army, 1917..
57. Map showing distribution of broncho pneumonia rate per 1,000 (20–29), by
State of nativity.
58. Broncho pneumonia, admission and death rates, per 1,000 mean strength,
by camps, United States enlisted men, September to December, 1917..
59. Broncho pneumonia, by State of nativity and State of occurrence, United
States Army, 1917..
60. Map showing distribution of ratio of total admissions for venereal diseases,
by National Army camps, referred to States of origin of troops.
61. Venereal diseases, admission rates, per 1,000 mean strength, enlisted men
in United States, 1880-1917...
REPORT OF THE SURGEON GENERAL OF THE ARMY.
A. LETTER OF TRANSMISSION.
I have the honor to submit herewith the one hundred and first annual report of the Surgeon General of the Army, covering statistically the calendar year 1917 and the fiscal year ending June 30,
The period embraced by this report has been one of the most memorable in the history of our country and has witnessed the unparalleled and successful activities of the War Department and the Nation, by means of which the Army of the United States, consisting of a few hundred thousand, has been speedily increased to one of several millions, well equipped and, skillfully transported overseas, to take its part with Great Britain, France, Italy, and their allies against the foes of democracy and peace.
At the time of the active entrance of the United States into the great war (Apr. 6, 1917) the Medical Department of the Army had less than a thousand trained commissioned officers and a proportionate number of enlisted men. To-day it has a larger personnel than the entire Army had two decades ago at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, and is fully prepared in all respects to meet the professional demands of the great armies now actually engaged at the front and in training in this country and abroad.
The Medical Corps of the Army has had from the first the active patriotic and unselfish cooperation and support of the medical profession of the United States. This has made possible the organization of a medical service which, for completeness of detail, from the first-aid station on the firing line to the reconstruction hospitals at the base, has rarely, if ever, been excelled.
In inaugurating and perfecting this highly specialized and technical corps, the Medical Department, or medical profession of the United States the terms are now practically synonymous-has been assisted in the greatest measure by many associated societies and corporations (the American Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A., the Knights of Columbus, the Young Men's Hebrew Association, and others) who have patriotically devoted their great influence to the welfare and humanitarian interests of the fighting forces. The important service being rendered by the organizations mentioned and similar ones, both at home and abroad, is one of the fine features of the war, illustrating as it does the universal interest of the people in the support and protection of the armies of the country and the determination of the Nation that nothing shall be left undone to insure the successful prosecution of this world-wide conflict.
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