Lord Kitchener, in his speech in the House of Lords on Monday afternoon, stated that the health of the troops was remarkably good and formed a striking testimony to the value of inoculation and the skill of the medical staff. If those persons who started a campaign against inoculation had not already realized the error of their ways, this testi-many would have completely knocked the bottom out of their arguments. The losses from disease amongst troops on active service have always been very heavy, and it is very gratifying to find that the losses amongst our troops from pre-vertible sickness have been fewer than in any campaign in which British troops have previously been engaged. This is no small consolation fered in actual fighting. In to inoculation and the exercise of surgical and medical skill, the Royal Army Medical Corps has done much by its lectures and talks on sanitation, hygiene and preventive medicine. Hitherto the wast: age in a campaign has been out of
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