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The Army Medical Department is presented with a series of inventions including a screen to segregate influenza infected troops from the healthy in the camps. Other inventions include a sugar dispenser that reduces consumption by 20%, and a hypodermic needle capable of administering 20 shots. 

Source: "Economy Sugar Bowl," The Sunday Star, Washington, District of Columbia, July 28, 1918. Page 44, Column 5.