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Died in the Stockade from its organization, February 24, 186l to September 2l ....................................................3,254 Died in Hospital during same time ...............................6,225 Total deaths in Hospital and Stockade ...........................9,479 Scurvy, diarrhea, dysentery, and hospital gangrene were the prevailing diseases.
* But it should be added that the effectiveness of the commission as an administrative and regulating body was diminished by decisions of the courts, notably the decision of the Supreme Court in the maximum rate case. See 160 U.S. 479. In 1906, when President Roosevelt became intensely active in the railroad problem, conditions were fairly demoralized.
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