HEALTH OF MAORI CAMP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16007, 27 August 1915, Page 9

HEALTH OF MAORI CAMP.

NO CASE OF MENINGITIS. REPORT MADE IX ERROR. " CARRIER"' FROM WAIKAXAE. Tub statement made by the Minister for Deteneo which was published yesterday that a ease suspected to be .-spinal meningius ] )a ,i L „ x urred in the camp of the second Maori contingent at Xairow Xeek was apparently inaccurate so far as its application to tho Maori contingent is concerned. \„ such ease has occurred in the Narrow Neck camp, and it is evident that confusion has arisen in regard to the ease of a soldier visiting Auckland on leave. " I hero is no case of cerebrospinal rneiuneitis in the Maori < amp nor any suspcted case," was the statement mad.. yesterday by Captain J. I). C. Duncan, pl'.al ,ffir Cr of the ,-..i,tii,ent. "There las not <-ven been a case of measles for son,., days, and. will, the exception of a few , ,i.<,. s of influenza, the health of the j men ,s excellent." I

*•••« statement was confirmed bv the district health officer. Dr. T. J. Hughes. i He said that there had not been any suspicion of meningitis in the Maori (amp. The Minister's statement probably re ferred to the case of a European soldier on leave from the Waikanae camp, who was found to be a meningitis "carrier.' Tins man has been placed in isolation, and will probably be discharged in two or three weeks. j The statement made by the Minister I for Defence as referted to in the House j | yesterday afternoon by Mr. Harris, who I .asked the Prime Minister whether he I would make a public statement on the i ; matter, telegraphs our Parliamentary! I correspondent. * I J The I'rimo Minister stated that he had i I received a telegram from the doctor in I I chaiw ot the camp, who stated that there I | «a« no e.-u-e of meningitis there, and that i none •■■ ,i„, jospital patients were suf. I i taring tn, m meningitis !