Military Sanitation for Regimental Officers

Now that regimental officers are taught hygiene and that in Field Marshall Sir E. Wood's words the Army doctor is regarded as a " trusted staff officer to advise their chiefs how to guard the troops against the originating and spreading of disease," and when soldiers like Sir H. L. Smith-Dorrien write an introduction to books like this, there is hope that in future wars the British Army may be spared much of the long list of casualties caused by disease which have marked the progress of all wars up to date, for