RT Journal
T1 GOvernment services
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD December 30
VO 113
IS 27
SP 2434
OP 2434
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.02800520057016
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800520057016
AB Health in the Civilian Conservation Corps 
    The death rate in the Civilian Conservation Corps for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1939, was 2.02 per thousand as compared with 2.38 for the previous year. A great reduction in the case fatality rate in pneumonia was reported: 4.1 as compared with an average rate for the preceding five years of 12.6. The rate of incidence of pneumonia was also much lower than in any year of the corps' existence except 1934. Tuberculosis caused a slightly lower death rate in 1938, 5.3 as compared with 6 per hundred thousand the previous year. There were nine cases of typhoid with no deaths, a rate of 3.4 cases per hundred thousand enrollees. In 1935 the rate was 25.9 and the next year it dropped to 7.8, a reduction attributed to improvement in water supplies and methods of handling waste and to the greater protective