Report on Progress of Trench Fever Investigations

At the first meeting of the Medical Research Committee of the A. R. C., held in October, 1917, and presided over by Major Alexander Lambert, Chief Surgeon, American Red Cross, one of us¹suggested the subject of the transmission of trench fever as being one of the most important for investigation in connection with the loss of man-power in some of the armies on the western front, and as being a more urgent problem for study in connection with the prevention of this disease than that of its etiology, the latter problem having already been studied extensively. It was requested that a statement be submitted at the next meeeting of the committee regarding our present knowledge of this disease. This report was submitted at the meeting of the Research Committee held in November, and was published in theMedical Bulletinof the A. R. C. for December. Following the