TRENTHAM SICKNESS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 13 July 1915, Page 4

TRENTHAM SICKNESS

NO DEFINITE DIAGNOSIS.

■NOTHING ALARMING,

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

I WELLINGTON, This Day. The Trent ham mystery, as rt has been -called!, is still unsolved, the Tmc 1 teriolocrists investigating it have not yet ' reported to the Minister, .'but it .is un.deVstoofl that up to date they have discovered nothing alarming Only four fresh case* occurred at Trentham yestorday. None of them serious, and no deaths were reported from k the hospitals. There lms, been no death p:,nce Thursday Inst All men who fell sick at Trentham to-day were men who had repently returned from leave. A curious: fact ' about, the business ,is that the 1 Sixth Reinforcements, who have beerr in camp longer than any of the other units have suffered less 'from the epidemic, and thev are very unwilling to leave the place and go to the new_ camp. The'r« -were about 42 cases of sickness amohgst the Trentham (the Earl of Liverpool's Own) Regiment at Palmcrston North vesterdav. There nrei about 27 sick men" at Waikanao and Levr.n> ■ , and about 40 at Tanherinikau. There.. is one serious ease-, at Palmerstan, / tonfc !hc remainder of the cases are of a mild nature. The sick men at Palmcrston aro , for the -most part affected by measles. The patients at the othfir. centres at© suffering chiefly from influenwv and '"Extra precautions have been taken against sickness amongst the- «ien- rem n aiir.i)"- at Trentham. Contact has ibcert one of" the troubles at the camp, and four men have been nut into a teint instead of fen, and 25 meh into a hut, Onlv the now huts are being used.