MILITARY HOSPITALS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3070, 4 May 1917, Page 9

MILITARY HOSPITALS

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is roally more than just seeing tliat the motorist gets tho full value for the money spent on his machine. It is really the first step in assuring him a long and useful life of service from hisbattery, for if tho battery starts its life fully charged, and then is closely watched by tho owner during the first three months of its life, the odds aro that it will givo little trouble. If, on the other hand, it goes into commission halfcharged, this condition gets worse and worse until finally the batterv *is thoroughly starved, and the Wner thoroughly disgruntled. This starved condition is particularly bad,, for no amount of charging at the service station Trill put the battery back in the excellent condition in which it -was at the start.

The daily bulletin of patients in hospitals at noon yestorday is as under:— Trentham: Discharged 1, remaining 31. / Infectious Ward: Remaining 2. Upper Hutt: Admitted 1, remaining 5. Featherstou: Admitted 8, discharged 8, remaining 3(j; euspect rheumatism, 1 caso; o.s.iu., 1 cose. ■ Infectious Ward: Remaining 1. Groytoivn: Ueniaining 2. Auckland: Remaining 9. Wellington: Komaining 20; pernioious anaemia, 1 case. Christchurch: Remaining 3. Dunedin: Discharged 6, remaining 60. Palmerston: Admitted 1, discharged 2, remaining 3, ' . Wanganui: Remaining 2. Cambridge: Remaining 1. Masterton: Romaining 3. Hanmer: Remaining 4. ' Invercai'gill: Banioining 1. Wairau: Remaining 1. Southland: Remaining 1. Thames: Remaining 1. Napier: Remaining 1. Hamilton: Remaining 1. l'ahiatua: Remaining 1. Taihape: Remaining 2. Ashburton: Regaining 1. Rotorua: Remaining 3. Whangarei:. Remaining 1. Total of Reinforcements in all hospitals, 196.