THE TROOPSHIP MONTROSE.

Evening Star, Issue 11660, 19 August 1902, Page 4

THE TROOPSHIP MONTROSE.

SICKNESS ON BOARD. AUCKLAND, August 19. The troopship Montrose moored ja the gulf last night, and entered port this morning. The Health Officers went off at nine o'clock. The inspection will last several hows. The vessel was flying a, signal that thtre was sickness on board. The pilot repcrts delay on the trip down the coast oVing to a breakdown in the engine room. No communication with the vessel is permitted. Nurse Gould, who rettitned to Australia by the Montrose, interviewed at Sydney said she was at Durban when the Draytoß Grange left. Tbe authorities only put healthy men on the Drayton Grunge, and all the sick were put on the Montrose. There was some measles on the Montrose, but there was plenty of room for the patients. The food was good, and hospital accommodation was ample. All the AiMtralian and New Zealand nurses (five) were seut home by the Montrose, Sister §&eej caine on here by the Montrose. The troopship was ordered to the quarantine station, and is reported to have tended fifty men. No communication is allowed with the ship, *nd no farther mforaatiojj is available. " • """■ Later. The Montrose has forty-nine troopers ill with scarlatina, and one of the crew is down with measles. Tbe sick will be left on the quarantine station, and be there looked after. The rest of the troopers will be lacded while the vessel and their clothing are being fumigated, after which, }t is ojjderr stood, the Auckland troopers who are well will be landed in town. The troopship will then proceed south with the Southern contingents. Latest. The report from the Montrose states that them s«> thirteen <*<£* of wa&tioa, mi

pneumonia, and thirty-seven others we on the tick list The Montrose will be docked here. The Southern contingents will be forwarded by the coastal steamers. There were two deaths on the Montrose. The names are not obtainable.