Military hygiene of the Japanese army / by Baron K. Takaki, F.R.C.S.E., D.C.L., late Director General of the medical department of the imperial Japanese navy.

  • Takagi, Kanehiro, 1849-1920
Date:
[1906]
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Credit: Military hygiene of the Japanese army / by Baron K. Takaki, F.R.C.S.E., D.C.L., late Director General of the medical department of the imperial Japanese navy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    danger, therefore, every one must be trained to the boiling of water before drinking it. There are, it must be remembered, great difficul¬ ties, especially at night, in determining whether a given water supply is good, and special precautions should be taken in time of night marching. For the execution of the third rule clothes, shirts, blankets, etc., must be kept clean and those wash¬ able must be washed whenever there is an oppor¬ tunity of doing so. In the quarters or districts where there is any epidemic disease, all the neces¬ saries must be disinfected or sterilized with special disinfecting apparatus. For the, execution of the fourth rule, the food must be inspected by medical officers before and after cooking, prior to its issue, and at the same time special care must be taken as to the food ob¬ tained at any new place. In addition to the general rules already outlined, each individual must take care of himself, therefore the imperial Japanese army was supplied with a text during the recent war and every officer of the line and medical officers have had to instruct soldiers, including inferior of¬ ficers, explaining the text instructions whenever they thought necessary or found time to do so. The contents of the instruction under the title: Sanitary Instructions in the Field for Inferior Officers and Soldiers, pertain to: i. Body. 2. Clothes. 3. Drink and Food. 4. March. 5. Quar¬ ters or shelter, etc.; a, shelter; (b) open camp. 6. Prevention of diseases incident to marching; a, chil¬ blain ; (b) sunstroke. 7. Prevention of contagious or infectious diseases. 1. Rules of General Hygiene.—1. Onychia (swollen finger), boils, toothache, etc., even when slight, dis¬ turb the free actions of body and lower the fighting strength of the army. As these are generally caused by carelessness everybody ought not forget to keep him¬ self clean even in war time. 2. As it is generally impossible to have warm bath