DISEASE IN CAMP.

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 September 1916, Page 7

DISEASE IN CAMP.

MEDICAL AUTHORITIES PUZZLED STEIXCENT PRECAITIOKARY M K:\SCHKS. WELLINGTON, 'September 11. Surgeon-General Hmderson and the medical men aj the camps are really concerned now about the prevalence of eerebro-spinal meningitis. Ihree moio irascrt iiavo eceurred to-day. Tin- medical authorities can get no clue to any possible cause from the histories of the cases. One extraordinary fealurr is that there have never yet licii two cas.s fr«»m one hutment within a brief period of one another. The theory hitherto has been that the disvase is communicated froni man to nuui,- and that. Tie l perm cannot live in any host except a human Vn.-i'.ip. The fact that two eases vvera found in the same group of men would seem t > disprove this theory. Very stringent precautionary measures are to be taken. The authorities have decided i:i future t" treat everv ease of influenza as one of potential meni'ipitis. One of the pre-eaut.i»:i,-'i will lie the establishment of inhaliup rooms, where l.i 'dies ol men will be required to breathe atmosphere heavily charged with ;uitiseptio inhalent. U;i th-: fa-is as rovealecl by Into >;! j] t ; sties', th n statement hitherto made !ha;t Treiitham is 11 worse camp for eerebro-spinal meningitis! than I'Va.their.tou cannot be sustained. 'J he trouble is equally bad in both camps.