CHRISTMAS CLEANSING.
IN OUR MILITARY CAMPS,
WELLINGTON, November 10
The military authorities have announced that the principal military camps in the Dominion will be closed during the Christmas holidays for cleansing purposes. This action illustrates the thorough manner in which 'Surgeon-General Henderson is carrying out the work entrusted to him.- It is believed that the New Zealand training camps are probably the most healthy in the world at the present time, and the credit for that fact must be given to Surgeon-General Henderson, who was brought to this country to take charge of the military medical. staff at a time when . -the sickness rate among the soldiers was unpleasantly high. ; 'General Hender-son-has done his work very thorough-
ly. He was not content with the isolation and the effective treatment of the sick soldiers. He set himself to trace cases of sickness to their source and to prevent infection by removing its causes. He arranged for the examination of recruits when they entered camp in order to detect "carriers," he established inhalation cham. bers, and insisted on disinfection in every direction. His reward is the reduced sickness rate.
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Northern Advocate, 12 November 1917, Page 3
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