IN CAMP

Grey River Argus, 2 May 1942, Page 4

IN CAMP

NELSON, MARLBOROUGH AND WEST COAST REGIMENT. MEN’S HEALTH GOOD. Camp life is running smoothly with the Nelson, Marlborough and WeA Coast Regiment, although fi ® ld a ’ ed ina has been somewhat inteiieieu with during .the last two weeks by the typhoid inoculation of all Farms. Men are given a spell, of nouis rest after this. A welcome change has been Reveille at 6.30 a.m,. instead of 6 a.m. The colder mornings however, give an added stimulus to an appetite for a piping hot creakf a^ 1 1 The Commanding Officer states that the general health of the Bat•t'alion continues to be extraordinarily good, the percentage of those attending sick parade each morning for all sorts of minor ailments being much below the recognised average. Colds and influenza are practically non-existent. Ten days ago a scare was caused by two men coming back from leave reporting sick with scarlet fever. Luckily this did not spread, due perhaps to the prompt action of their tent mates being quarantined and all movement in and out of camp stopped for two days. One most regrettable case occurred when a popular lad of the regiment died on the 21st. inst., in the Wairau Hospital from a non-contagi-ous form of meningitis. The camp cooks deserve a hearty mead of praise for continuing to turn out well-cooked food, judged by most men to be better than that turned out at Burnham. In addition to cooking for their own unit, they are cooking for some two hundred men from an adjoining camp.