INFLUENZA AT JAMBOREE
Details Of Hospital Admissions
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, January 14.
Auckland’s public hospitals admitted 421 boy scouts—most of them with influenza—during the jamboree, the acting-chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board (Mr G. Bartley) said today. In addition, 116 cases were treated at the Green Lane Public Hospital’s casualty department.
There are 91 scouts still in hospital. A ward in the Cornwall hospital has been handed over to the jamboree authorities to run as an anex to their convalescent hospital at the Cornwall Park School.
After being in contact with sick boys, 23 of the board’s medical and nursing staff caught influenza. Of the boys still in hospital, 10 are there for other illnesses, including one case of poliomyelitis. AH are New Zealand scouts except one from Fiji.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28794, 15 January 1959, Page 7
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