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HEADQUARTERS CAMP LEE.
Camp Surgeon's Office
Petersburg, Virginia.
Nov. 7, 1918.
From:
To:
The Camp Surgeon, Camp Lee, Va.
The Surgeon General, (Attention Colonel Howard)
N.
Subject: Report on the Influenza & Pneumonia Epidemic.
1. In compliance with circular letter Surgeon General's Off ice,
Oct. 30, 1918, (S.G.0. 710 Influenza) the following report is submitted:
(A) Composition and Strength of Command.
There are no permanent divisional organizations at this camp
other than certain units of the Veterinary Corps and one Ambulance Company.
The following are the more important organizations into which the camp is
divided. The figures given are for the average strength of the period
September 15th to November 6th, 1918:
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Organization
Infantry Replacement & Tr. Camp
155th Depot Brigade
Veterinary Training Scfhool
Camp Quartermaster Detch.
1st Prov. Gd. & Spec. Duty Bn.
Base Hospital
Auxiliary Remount Depot
407th Reserve Labor Bn.
Central Officers Tr. School
School for Bakers & Cooks
Utilities Detch.
Motor Ambulance Co. 48
Drafted increments and various small
detachments - Officers and men
Officers
915
382
208
39
3
148
16
8
171
5
10
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14,440
13, 574
3,875
963
976
983
656
936
5,576
340
356
122
4,596
Total strength of Command Officers and Men........ 49,300
(B) The first recognized cases of influenza were discovered
in the 3rd Company, 8th Battalion, 155th Depot Brigade, on the night of
September 13, 1918, although a few cases had been admitted to the hospital
as early as September 9, 1918, but were not diagnosed as influenza. These
cases were immediately sent to the Base Hospital and the 8th Battalion
placed in strict quarantine; however the disease soon spread throughout the
Depot Brigade, which was placed in 'quarantine against the rest of the Camp.
As the number of cases was soon more than the Base Hospital could take care
of, in the early part of the epidemic, one down-stairs squad room in each
