The Spectator at war: Taking cover

From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 16 January 1915:

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Friday’s Times contains on its “leader” page an appeal to our soldiers by Sir William Osier in regard to inoculation against typhoid. He tells the soldiers in simple but stirring language that it is their bounden duty to keep themselves in as perfect a state of health as possible, and reminds them that their worst foes are those of their own camp—the foes of disease. He recalls the fact that in South Africa the bacilli of disease killed twice as many men as did the bullets of the Boers. He next goes on to point out how inoculation safeguards men from the terrible dangers of enteric, and how alight is the indisposition caused by inoculation. When twenty-two thousand Canadians were vaccinated for enteric only twenty-two had symptoms other than malaise and headache.