SOLDIER PATIENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 264, 8 November 1939, Page 16

SOLDIER PATIENTS.

IN WAIKATO HOSPITAL.

MANY IXFIATKNZA CASES. (From Our Correspondent.) HAMILTON. Tuesday. Soldier patients from the Hopuhopu ('itnip imiiihorin<r l.'iO luive been treated at tlie Waikato Hospital since the opening of tlie ramp two months ago. I lie majority of them have suffered from a mild form of influenza, and while some have, been in the institution for two or three days only, tlie average length of «stJiy ha* been from five to •seven days. The greatest number of admissions for any one day wan 27, which was recorded yc-tcrday. while the tili in the hospital In day constitutes the largest number of soldier patients ill hospital on any one day. The acting medical sii|>erintende.nt, Dr. I!. S. A. (Jraliitin, stated to-day that including the soldiers. 41 patients were admitted yesterday and brought the 11111111 m• i- nf patients in the hospital up to The jiceomiiKMlat ion was fully t.i.Mvl, and every available corner had been utili-ed in which to place beds.

Dr. <;raliam -Hid that there was an easement in the incidence of influenza among s(ddicrs toward the end of la-t wce.k. but at the week-end the admissions ri»e rapidly. He hoped that with the fine weather this ueck and the removal of the Kitle Battalion from Ilopiiliopu to more comfortable quarterat I'a pit is 111 a, there would be a rapid iinpro\ cincnt in the position.