A STUDY OF THE NATURE AND CONTROL OF AIR-BORNE INFECTION IN ARMY CAMPS

doi:10.1001/jama.1944.02850510001001

A STUDY OF THE NATURE AND CONTROL OF AIR-BORNE INFECTION IN ARMY CAMPS

CHICAGO; MEDICAL CORPS, ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES; CHICAGO; MEDICAL CORPS, ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES; CHICAGO
From the Department of Medicine, the Douglas Smith Foundation for Medical Research and the Bartlett Memorial Fund of the University of Chicago, and from the Commission on Air-Borne Infections, Board for the Investigation and Control of Influenza and Other Epidemic Diseases in the Army, Preventive Medicine Service, Office of the Surgeon General, U. S. Army.

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The study of air-borne infection is of relatively recent origin. Several circumstances in particular have accelerated investigation in this field during the past two to three years, namely the development of more efficient and quantitative methods for recovering bacteria from the air, progress in methods of aerial disinfection and the war. The fact that between one third and one half of all illness in army camps is caused by diseases of the respiratory tract coupled with the lack of any effective measures for reducing the incidence of such diseases indicated the urgency of intensive study of this problem in the Army. Before the war began, a number of special commissions were set up under the Board for the Investigation and Control of Influenza and Other Epidemic Diseases, Preventive Medicine Service, Office of the Surgeon General, U. S. Army. Certain of these commissions were assigned to study different specific diseases of

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Wholehearted cooperation was extended by many medical and line officers in the army camps in which these studies were conducted.
Read before the Section on Experimental Medicine and Therapeutics at the Ninety-Fourth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Chicago, June 14, 1944.