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WHy jA"AN ;W AS VICtORIOUS. Lower Mortality From Dsease Than Any Army Which Has Faced a Foe-Perfect Sanitation and Well Equipped Ho6pitals. Detriot, Michigan, September 28. Major Louis L. Seaman, of New York was the central figure today at the convention of Military Surgeons of the United States, when he made an swer to the criticisms of his utterance made last Tuesday by Surgeon Chas. F. Stokes of the United States navy and followed with a paper on "The Real Triumph of Japan" or "The Conquest of the Silent Foe," in which -he -reiteraxed many of his former statements and lauded the Japanese government for its conduct of the san itary and thygenic phase of the late war. Two executive sessions of the convention were held during the fore noon, at which it was said by mem bers certain utterances attributed to Dr. Seaman in an interview in an evening paper h-ere last night were considered. Dr. 'Seaman was quoted in the interview as saying that a cele brated American woman physician was regarded by *he Japanese medi cal department as a monumental nui sance. Although officers of the as sociation refused to discuss the execu tive sessions, it is said by members that it was decided to drop the mat ter, Dr. Seaman having stated to the -second closed session recently that he had not been talking for publi cation when the statements objected to were alleged to have been made. As a result of the feeling engendered by the controversy between Dr. Sea man and his .critics, Dr. Seaman at the conclusion of his paper today tendered his badge of membership and resignation to the secretary, if it was desired. Dr. Seaman's paper was as follows: "Mr. President and Gentlemen: The success of Japan in the recent conflict with Russia was due preemi nently to three fundamental causes: First, thorough preparation and or ganization for war-such preparation as was never made before; second, to the simpl6, non-irritating, and easily digested ration of the Japanese troops, and, third, to the brilliant part played -, by the members of the medi.:al pro fession in the applicat-ion of practi cal sanitation, the stamping out of pre ventable diseases in 'the army, there by saving its units for the legitmate purposes of war--the smashing of the enemy in the field. "It must never be forgotten that in every great campaign an army faces two enemies: First, the armed forces of the opposing foe; second, the far greater silent foe, disease. "Of these enemies, the history of warfare for centuries has proven that the first kills 20 per cent. of the total mortality in the conflict, whilst the second kills 8o per cent. This dread ful and unnecessary sacrifice of life, especially in conflicts between the Anglo-Saxon races, is the most ghast ly proposition of the age, and the Japanese have gone a long way to ward conquering or eliminating it." *Record for soo Years. Major Seaman cited tables of sta tistics df battle records for 200 years1 showing that there has rarely 'been a conflict i whichi at least four men< have not perished of disease for one from bullets. He continued: "But the crowning piece of imbe cility was reserved for our late war with Spain, where more than ten were needlessly sacrificed to ignorance and -incomptency for every one who died on the firing line or from bullets. e This, too, in the short campaign of t six weeks. "All of t1iese statistics were studied with minutest care and detail by the Japanese. Their authorities recog-e nized that, in order to be victorious t over a foe like Russia, this greati silent enemy that slaughters 8o out ofe every 1oo must be overcome. And , the medical men of the army did it." t The speaker then showed the ac- ; tual figures of killed, wounded and a sick in the Japanese army from Feb-c ruary 1904, to the end of April, 1905, a which averaged nearly five deaths t from bullets for one from disease, i: or goo per cent, better than the aver- 1: age in history. Major Seaman says: lI "This record is unparalleled and ri unapproached and the medical men of c the army achieved it." a How this marvelous result was at- S vork of ten years, beginning imme- tl liately after the war with China, t< when Japanese statesmen realized h [apan would again have to go to war v to preserve her independence as a iation. The great amount of ill- f< iess likely to appear in. the -army was a aken into consideration and the c, aeps for its elimination were taken. fi "With this point always in view," it Major Seaman continued, "she sent ier students all over the world to t'] tudy the army systems in other a Lands. Upon the declaration of war a 5he was prepared to house, scientifi- v cally treat and tenderly care for 25,000 t1 ick and w'ounded in Japan alone. o rwelve sets of maifi ihospitals, each' with from one to five attached branch o ospitals, -were scattered throughout r the empire in the chief towns of the g 12 military districts into whic-hi the t] :ountry is divided. Number of Beds Increased. I "The orginal 25,000 odd beds were 1 rapidly increased in number as the v campaign progressed, though, ex. d ceedingly plain, pine buildings run- ii ing parallel and so constructed that each was a unit housing ioo pa- 1< tients, but connected in series by n covered walks and runways. Great n elasticity was gained by this simple c form of architecture, for wards could ib be .tacked on indefinitely within the c limitations of the property area. t. "One and a half years after the b commencement of the war, or on t the 6th of July, 1905, the 12 great 'l military home hospitals possessed a a normal capacity of 58,263 available v beds. On this same day, however, r only one-half of them were in use, t or, to be exact, there were 28,561 r patients in hospital. The apparent s hospital over-preparedness suggests that the Japanese themselves failed to reailze what marked successes would l. attend the enforcement of their new t code of military hygiene and sani- c tation as applied for the first -time r in the field. V "Whether the medical department f, prepared this immense hospital sys- a tem for sick or wounded is of little importance; the fact, however, be- ii ing that when the ghastly cortege from Mukden did arrive in Japan in a April there was hospital room for v every disabled man of the thousands p and 'thousands, and instant medical v attendance and care and nursig ready a and waiting. "The pharmaceutical side of these nilitary hospitals is an auxiliary ma-h :hine, working in perfect ~harmony t ith the whole. Like the field ser.. a vice, it is indisputably responsible C Eor all the medicaL,anld surgical sup- c lies, and issues them upon requisi- t< :ion of the doctors and surgeons.< Besides this, the department is re sponsible for all sterilized milk, wash- tl ng of bandages and rerolling, disin- ' ection of bedding, and the makcing c f chemical tests of urine. t "Every hiospital throughout Japan U mnd every base and field hospital in I 4anchuria ,has its bacteriological lab- ti ratory. . n Praise For The Surgeons. "Too much cannot b)e said in en husiastic commendation of this side >f the service. Undoubtedly the pains- ta aking researches have been the la neans of saving thousands of lives IV y forestalling possible epidemics, Lnd saving individual life by prompt is letermination of thle trouble. No b nan suffers from 'temperature but ti whose blood goes under the micro- o icope. Malaria is malaria, and ty- fr hoid is typhoid in the Japanese is Lrmy. Diseases are not guessed at, qi L they were in Cuba, the Philippines Ld South Africa, where often for d: full week the physicians attempted o: o diagnose cases by sleight of hand ai Lnd trick of eye. -a "The limits of this paper do not dmit of more than the merest refer- oi :nce to the splendid system of sani- m~ ation followed in the field. Suffice ti t to say t,het during the campaign ai :xtending over a year and a half, h< vith from 300,000 'to 6oo,ooo soldiers es tndergoing the severest hardships and h< irivations of active service, there di .re in the Japanese .army 36 men out i every ioo who have never reported .t sick call; 36 men who never saw he inside of a hospital or were sick 1 quarters, a record absolutely un-- a kralleled. The war has taught many is essons and destroyed many ideals in a atters military, as in matters surgi al. In snirgical technique, or in the SC ier-treatr:at of the wounded and ick, the Japanese have taught The ec reiger ompratielylitle, ut n d ie field of sanitary science and die- sh tics they have demovstrated, what as never been done before, that pre- ac -ntable diseases are preventable. ha "They have preserved their armies )r the legitimate purposes for which rmies are enlisted; the killing o >nquering of an open enemy in the ke eld, instead of having four-fifths of in s mortality victims to thie silent foe.. "It is againist this dreadful scourge, is need'less sacrifice, that the Jap. to ese -have made their hardest fight rd won their most signal victories ictories that will redound more to ieir credit 'than even the expulsion - f tihe Muscovite aggressor. "A dispatch received from London n September 21 from the Tokyo cor espondent of the London Standard, iving the statistics of the war to 1a date, reports: " 'Killed, 46,180; died of wounds, :,70; -died from sickness, 15,300.' 'his percentage of death to sickness ras less than one-fourth of the tota) ead, ,which is a record not paralleled i the annals of war. "When contemplating these marve )us figures, with what a ghastly and ielancholy smile -the hero of Manila lust recall his action in censoring the ablegram of the chief surgeon who ad requested 50 additional medical = fficers and 200 more nurses when 4 ie hospital wards were overcrowded, ecause such a dispatch would prove 4 he falsity of his claim that he had :he situation ,well in hand.' Months fer,wards the surgeons and nurses rere provided, but not until the hor ible condition was intensified, and aps had sounded the requiem for iany a poor boy who had joined the :reat majority. Unloading At Tampa. "Perhaps the same delight- may so ce the contemplative commander in he Cuban campaign, when he re- 4 al:s his famous order at Tampa, di ecting the unloading of a ship filled rith medical and hospital supplies >r Santiago, and the substitution of load of mules instead. "Or of another major general dur ig that war, who .on being waited pon by certain medical officers ,with protest against the use of certain ater said, in response to their com laint: 'When I want your advice, I rill send for you; until I do, you can tend to your own business.' "Or even if the then secretary of rar, who, inspecting the camps at E ontauk Point with the president of ie' United -States, said looking at E glass of Mater furn;ished the troops f this infected camp, and which ertain medical men ihad pronounced F contain germs of disease: 'Why, it oks airight 'to me.' "Until the line and staff officers otf1 1e American army are taught the ecessity of sanitati:n and the medi-C a officer is given rank and authority F enforce it, our medical departmemn must remain a humiliating failure.F as contim;ance under present condi ons is no less than an evidence of" ational imbecilty." ' Railroading A Divorce. While the divorce question is agi sting the minds of the ministers andi a .wmakers, this story from Senator [ayburn, of Idaho, comes in well: Back in the early 70's the leg lature of Idaho rushed through a .11 grinting a divorce to a captiva nig woman who wanted to get rid her husband. She had influent-ial S iends who were members of the leg lature and thought it safer and icker than to apply to the co"' One of the members, who w . sgusted with this summary way - usurping the powers of the courts ud who 'had voted against the bill [ -ose and said: "Mr. Speaker, I rise to. a point of -der. I am summoned to attend a eeting of one of the committees of i huonorable body, of which I n chairman. I have a wife at me of whom I am very fond. I .rnestly and respectfully beg the >use not to divorce me from her iring my absence." Buttons In The Collection. It is related by an exchange that in certain parish, the name of which prudently withheld, the wife~ of clergyman was mending clothes lien a neighbor dropped in for a cial chat The visitor's attention was at!rat-U to a large basket, half-filled wtith e suddenly remarked: "Why, here are two buttons ex- e tly the same as those my husband fi d on his last winter suit!" W "Indeed," said the clergyman's wife, hat's curious! All these buttons er ire found in the collection bas- " :t, and I have saved them, think g i might put them to use." After this the conversation lan iished, and very soon the visitor ok her departure. But the story >t abroad, and no more buttons ire found in the basket. 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