Army & Navy - EQUIPMENT: One Man's Meat

HEALTH

A dazzling vista in U.S.-British relations opened last week: an American officer praised the British climate. Reporting that the health of troops in Britain is the best of all the expeditionary forces in U.S. history, Brigadier General James S. Simmons, director of the Army's Division of Preventive Medicine, said that one of the main factors was "the healthful, temperate climate" of the British Isles.

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