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The Dawson News
Dawson, Terrell County, Georgia
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At Camp Grant near Rockford, Illinois, a new pneumonia serum from the University of Chicago has led to a mortality rate of less than 8% (13 deaths out of 170 cases), far below the 40-50% in civilian communities, making it the lowest among U.S. army cantonments.
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HAS PROVEN A BIG SUCCESS
Army Camp That Used Treatment at Camp Grant Leads All Ordinary Army Camps of Country.
ROCKFORD, Ill. Medical officers at the cantonment near here said yesterday that in their opinion the reason the local camp has led all national army cantonments in a low death rate from pneumonia is that a new serum treatment for the disease has been employed here. The serum, it was said, is produced at the University of Chicago.
Since the base hospital opened there have been only thirteen fatalities out of 170 cases of lobar pneumonia, a mortality of less than 8 per cent. In civil communities the mortality of lobar pneumonia is said to run from 40 to 50 per cent.
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Camp Grant Near Rockford, Ill.
Event Date
Yesterday
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13 fatalities out of 170 cases of lobar pneumonia, mortality less than 8 per cent (compared to 40-50 per cent in civil communities)
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Medical officers at the cantonment near Rockford, Ill., attribute the camp's leading low death rate from pneumonia among national army cantonments to a new serum treatment produced at the University of Chicago, employed since the base hospital opened.