THE SICKNESS AT TRENTHAM.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15337, 22 July 1915, Page 6

THE SICKNESS AT TRENTHAM.

TWO MORE DEATHS

(SPECIAL TO "THE PRESS.") WELLTNOTON, Jn.'y 21. Just before the House of Representatives rose this evening, Mr G. W. Russell asked if the Minister had any statement to mak© with regard to •what had happened at, Berhampore Hospit&l that day. Mr Rhodes: I have nothing to say with regard to Berhamporo; ive removed the men from, there. Mr Witty: Death is romoving some of them, I am afraid. Mr Russell's reference was to the "Wellington Hospital, and ho said that within the last half-hojir he had received N information that tw o men had died, and two others were very bad. Mr Rhodes said that there were serious cases at Trontham, but they were somewhat better that day. Berhampore had been closed down. Hβ knew that there were some serious cases at "Wellington Hospital, but tho deaths referred to had not been reported to him. J>r. Thacker asked whether tho report of the medical men on Trentham would be laid before the House tomorrow evening. Mr Rhodes: I understand the Commission,' unofficially, has asked seven doctors to fio out to Trentham. Whatever report they make will be made, to_the Commission. (PRESS ASSOCIATION* TKUtGRA JJ.) WELLINGTON, July 21. Seen after the House rose, the Minister of Public Health stated that he had got into touch with the authorities at Wellington Hospital, and had found that two men ha<l died there, though tho fact had not been previously reported to him- Ono patient, who was suffering from cerebro-spinal meningitis, died this afternoon, and tho other, who was admitted as a measles patient, died yesterday. Later. The two soldiery who died in Wellington durrnjr the last twenty-four hours from meningitis are: — Trooper Thuiiel Kompthorne. belonging to Teraploton (Christchurch).—Diet! at 11.40 p.m. on Tuesday in Victoria Hospital; and Privato Duncan Fraser, of Pokeno, near Auckland.—Died at 12.45 p.m. to-day in the. General Hospital. A SOLDIER'S REPLY TO DR. THACKER. (CTECIAI- TO "THE Tit ESS ") WA-NGANUI, July 21. As Dr. Thacker, M.P., is a medical practitioner, some attention was paid to him by the House, but ho does not seem to have. earntKl much thanks from tho "poor" soldiers whom he rescued from "disease-infested" Trenthara. One of the soldiers now at Waikanao, writing to a friend in Wanganui, refers to the fact that ho had bwn in the hospital, and "in spit<* of all this silly agitation 1 would 2" burn there tomorrow." Tho soldier rgvs on to say that "Dr. Thacker i* obuuninjc credit for a Kreat many things for which he was not responsible. Many things in eain n f needed rovisinff but they were brine revised lojih before thw gentloman came alorug interferinp;. We think that if the doctor is the ardent patriot that he would have you believe ho is, he would be out at Trentham lending a helping hand instead of remaining outside to slinqp mud at the noblo hand of overworked doctors. Camp life- has many drawbacks, but it has also it« compensating features, and I think that tho last-named easily outweich tho former." The, writer conclude* with sayine that, all are very anxious to rotuVn io Trentham.