MEDICAL DIRECTOR GENERAL REPORTS.
NO INFECTION FROM NEW ZEALAND. (Per Pre_>_j Association.) WELLINGTON, September 17. S.r James Alien has received the following report from the DirectorGeneral of -.Medical Services here, on an epidemic among the Jb'ortieth Reinforcements during the period ot tneir training here : lhere was very little sickness among the Jb'ortieth Reinforcements. » Uiuy one infectious case, of scarlet fever, had occurred among them. At tlie first two ports of call we had reports from the ship, and up till then the health was good. From this it is obvious that no infection waß carried from New Zealand, since, in the five weeks that elapsed from the departure to the first port of call,, any outbreak would have had full time for development; nor can there have been ahy thing inherent in the sanitary conditions of the ship, otherwise the effects would have been apparent before reaching the port of. call. The earliest death occurred nearly three weeks after leaving that port of call.
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Grey River Argus, 18 September 1918, Page 3
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