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Evidence is not lacking that influenza occurred in epidemic form in other widely separated camps in the United States during the spring of 1918. Vaughan and Palmer^[4] state that a disease strongly resembling influenza became prevalent in the Oglethorpe camps about March 18, 1918, and continued three weeks; during this time the number sent to hospital or to quarters with this disease was 1,468 in a total strength of 28,586. Pneumonia does not appear to have followed this epidemic.

Miller and Lusk^[5] found the ordinary type of pneumonia prevalent at Camp Dodge, Iowa, until March 18 to 20, 1918, when abruptly the streptococcus type predominated and there was a great increase in the rate of mortality. A mild tracheitis, they state, was widespread in the camp during March.

In March, 1918, one member of our commission saw an outbreak of influenza at Fort Sam Houston which was identical in its clinical characters with the disease which appeared as a pandemic in the fall of 1918.

The report of the Surgeon General^[6] for 1919 shows that there was a sharp increase of the incidence of influenza in the army during March, reaching a maximum in April. The rate of influenza for 1,000 troops fell to its original level through May and June and finally rose to a great height in September and October.