TY  - JOUR
T1  - SAnitary recommendations of the surgeongeneral of the army.
Y1  - 1899/01/21
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1899.02450300039010
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 137
EP  - 137
VL  - XXXII
IS  - 3
N2  - The Surgeon-General has recently addressed to the Adjutant-General of the Army three communications which should have an important bearing on the medical history of our military camps and garrisons, whether in the United States or in the islands that have been brought under the protection of our flag. The first deals with the subjects of water-supply and the disposal of excreta in all camps. Portable filters, for the proper use of which company commanders should be made responsible, are recommended. In the disposal of excreta it is suggested that the expense of a sewerage system for a camp of some permanency is small as compared with that of an outbreak of typhoid fever, as clearly shown during the past summer; but as an alternative, when the camp is not to be occupied long enough to justify the establishment of a complete system of sewers, the Surgeon-General recommends the use of
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1899.02450300039010
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450300039010
ER  -