HOOKWORM INFECTION AS A MEDICO-MILITARY CONSIDERATION

Abstract

Following the call of the President, June 18, 1916, approximately 10,000 men were mobilized at Nogales, Ariz. These troops, with the exception of 1,200 regulars, were composed of organizations of the National Guard from northern, eastern and Pacific states. They had very little sickness. The morbidity rates for August, September and the first three weeks in October varied from 14 to 35 per thousand for the regulars and from 7 to 29 per thousand for the National Guard. The average morbidity rate for regulars was 23.1 per thousand while that of the National Guard was somewhat lower, 17.9 per thousand. During the last week in October, 1916, a brigade of the Alabama National Guard was mobilized at Nogales. This command consisted of headquarters, three regiments of infantry, an ambulance company, a field hospital and a company of Signal Corps troops. Shortly after the arrival of these troops the morbidity rates