SICKNESS IN CAMP
INFLUENZA AMONG RECRUITS. _ 'Some recrudescence of influenza is reported'at Trentham Camp, where the recruits of the Forty-seventh Reinforcements, mobilised last week, are providing fresh cases. The medical oleers state that the recruits took the infection to camp with A vig* orous course of spraying and inhalation: is being applied to the men. No serious cases are reported. Yesterday morning there were 176 men oh sick parade at Tr'eritliam. About twenty men were taken into hospital. The number of tfresh' influenza cases taken into hospital on Tuesday night and yesterday morning was thirty-sis. Of 287 men in hospital at Trentham, 184 were suffering from influenza. No additional cases of influenza wera reported yesterday at Featherston Camp, which contains a much larger number of men than Trentham Camp. There were reported to be 97 men in "hoßoital at Featherston, 49 of them suffering from influenza.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 19, 17 October 1918, Page 4
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146SICKNESS IN CAMP Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 19, 17 October 1918, Page 4
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