VACCINATION AGAINST TYPHOID IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY

Abstract

In view of the interest manifested by physicians, and particularly by health officers, in the prevention of typhoid fever in the United States Army by means of vaccination, the following note is presented; data covering the entire period, including the calendar year 1914, are included: The officers who foresaw the importance of this measure to the Army and secured favorable reception of the idea in the War Department were Gen. George H. Torney, then Surgeon General, and Col. Jefferson R. Kean, Medical Corps, in charge of the Sanitary Division of the Office of the Surgeon General. During the summer of 1908, Major Frederick F. Russell, Medical Corps, United States Army, was sent to Europe to make a study of the methods in use in England for the prevention and stamping out of typhoid fever epidemics, both in the army and among the civil population. His report and recommendations were submitted