FEWER SOLDIERS ILL
AUCKLAND EPIDEMIC. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 12. A total of 522 soldiers suffering from influenza have now been, evacuated from the Papakura mobilisation camp to hospitals in the city. There are 67 patients from camp in the Auckland Hospital, 40 jn the infirmary, 298 in the auxiliary hospital at the Idler si ie racecourse, and 117 in the emergency wards at the Teachers Training College, Epsom. It is expected that a further 50 or 60 men will be sent from Papakura to-mor-row. Regarded as a sign that the worst of the epidemic may* have passed, there was a further decrease in the number of soldiers who reported at the daily sick parade at the camp to-day.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 166, 13 June 1940, Page 4
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