Abstract
To the Editor: —At the end of the first week of the influenza epidemic at Newport (Sept. 15, 1918), while the disease was raging with great severity, 1,000 men were removed from the receiving barracks to the Vanderbilt farm (Camp Admiral Oman), 7 miles out of town. Here they were placed in large pyramidal tents, eight men to each tent. During the first three days, ninety-three new cases of influenza developed among the men at the camp. September 19, the fourth day at the camp, no new cases developed and the epidemic practically terminated, only an occasional sporadic case of influenza developing thereafter. The men at the camp mushroomed their tents every sunny day, ate at mess tables placed in the open, and were allowed no liberty during the first five weeks at the camp. It was noticed at the same time that the men in tents at the training
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