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INFLUENZA AT PAPAKURA. 483 CASES YESTERDAY. (Per Press Association). AUCKLAND, June 11. The task of evacuating students from the Auckland Teachers’ Training College, and of clearing the rooms foi use as emergency wards to accommodate victims of the influenza epidemic at the Papakura mobilisation camp, was completed yesterday. As fast as seven motor trucks removed desks, benches, and other classroom equipment from the ground floor of the building, they wore replaced by bedding and hospital requirements. As a result of what was described as a remarkable achievement, 60 beds will be available for patients from the camp this morning. There are already men at Papakura awaiting evacuation to the college. Yesterday’s total of cases was 483, of whom 426 were in civil hospitals, nine were in the camp hospital, and 48 were temporarily accommodated in the camp cinema before being brought into the city. With 278 patients at Ellerslie, the emergency hospital was seriously crowded. One hopeful . sign seen by the authorities was a decrease in the number of soldiers reporting for the daily sick parade. As against 283 on Saturday and 238 on Monday, the total yesterday was 214.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 209, 12 June 1940, Page 7
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