me ee ee me wees A et teA ee a i Id tet Fe ei Th he ota a U. §. ARMED FORCES MEDICAL JOURNAL abnormalities, and bone deformities was negligible. The inciclence was 0.3 percent or less of the total number of inhabitants x-rayed. The general physical examinations disclosed that the most prev- alent diseases were skin clisenses. diseases of the eve, and respiratory diseases. Leprosy was also of maior importance. Other diseases of wide prevalence were degenerative joint disease, neoplastic diseases, rickets and vitamin deficiencies. anemia, and infiammatory diseases of the ear. «wn ACKNOWLEDGMENT: This report was made possible br many persons within the Bureau of Medicine and Surgerr, Department of the Navy, who contributed to the initiation, development, and accomplishment of the bealth survey itself and, more specifically. br the personnel of the medical statistics division who 6 painstakingly processed the data. The author fs especialiv indebted to Dr. W. V. Choarter, director of the division, for sponsorship of the study: to Mr. Louis P. Hellinan. deputr director, for his fuidance and invaluable suggestions: aod to Mrs. Helen Rad for the manuscript preparation. The professional advice relaring to the medical aspects of the data that was so geperouslr provided br personnel of the preventive medicine division is gratefully ackoowledzed. REFERENCES Lo sHuxpeook ox THE Trest TERRitoRY OF TRE Pactric Istaxps. Navy Department, Office of the Chief ef Naval Operations. Washington, D.C., 1948. 2 Huxppook oN THE Tavst Territory oF THE Vaciric Istanps. Nary Department. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, June 1970. 3. Bretis spy Ace oF MoTHner. Race. axp Brette Oeper, Uniten States io. Federal Security Ageocr, U.S. Public Health Service, Natioual Office of Vital Statistics, 15 Oce. 1951, p. 145. ncn PROGHESS IN DIABETES Diabetes continsnes to maintain an unchallenged position in the study of clinical conditions chiefir because it represeuts all aspects of medicine. The number of diahetic patients increases each rear, oot beenuse it is as such on the increase. hut rather because the thousands of undisenvered cases are now being discovered... . The future of diabetes ix brighter now than ever in the past. Research way bring about fewer complications, oral manigement and even eventual enre. but aur presene knowledge, when applied. makes the futnre mare hopefel. Early diaumosis. better manacement. controt of dixabling conditions and efforts in the prevention of diahetes are all important steps caward the goal we are ail striving fer, namely, make the two willing known diabetic patients and the one and onehalf millian undiscovered cases a talnedd part of everyday living heeause ther are quite like their nondiabetic netchher.—I. W. Wrexexs: The Future of Diabetes. TAc Journal of the fudiana State Medical Aasociution, October 1954, \272 VOLUME 10, No. 10 3013274