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Allergy was one of the many problems encountered by the Army when recruiting the manpower necessary for this war. Hyde and Kingsley 1 report on the findings in 60,000 men, the first 6,000 of whom were from 21 to 34 years of age and the remainder from 21 to 44 years. All these men came from a limited section of Massachusetts. The examinations were made

new cases were examined in the allergy section of this hospital. Of the men receiving the certificate of disablity for discharge, 8.9 per cent had allergic diseases. Nine hundred and twenty-one of the 1,238 men with allergic diseases had respiratory allergy, hay fever, vasomotor rhinitis and bronchial asthma; 7.48 per cent had bronchial asthma. The greatest problem was intrinsic bronchial asthma associated with chronic respiratory infection.A similar experience is reported from the allergy section of the Station Hospital, Camp Blanding, Fla. Gold and Bazemore 2 state that 51 per cent of the patients were admitted for asthma, while 11 per cent were admitted for

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