SICKNESS AT CAMPS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16310, 17 August 1916, Page 9

SICKNESS AT CAMPS.

PATIENTS AT TRENTHAM. GENER HENDERSONS REPORT. CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS.

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WELLINGTON. Wednesday. THE latest repot - . from Trentham ramp indicate that there is no reason for alarm. After visiting the ramp, Surgeon-General Hender.-on issued the following bulletin: "There are one ease of diphtheria, one rase of pneumonia, both doing well; two cases of cerebro spinal meningitis, both doing well; me rase of cerebrospinal meningitis, admitted to Aospital last nisht. i- '■ vp t '" a very early stage. There air tine-' rases, of cerebrospinal meningitis in all. All of these patients belong to the nineteenth .reinforcements, with the exception of the pneumonia patient, who is a member of the eighteenth reinforcement?"

Reports from Featherston. stated General Henderson, show that the health of the troops there is satisfactory. The nineteenth reinforcements at the Tatsherenikau camp are reported to be in excellent health. A report issued at noon to-day by the principal medical officer at Trentham, Colonel Andrews, shows no change in the position- The report is as follows: "There is one more suspicious rase of eerebro - spinal meningitis. The other cases are progressing favourably. Tne diphtheria case has much improved. There are no fresh cases. The pneumonia case is much the same."'

General Henderson states that the Minister for Defence, the Hon. James Allen, has sanctioned the erection of a 48-bed infectious diseases hospital. Plans have been submitted and approved, and the erection of one ward, on land newly acquired by the Government, is to be undertaken immediately. A sum of £2250 has been authorised for the construction of the building, which will he added to as occasion arises. The first ward is expected to be ready for occupation by October. Since the nineteenth reinforcements left Trentham every hut has been scrubbed out and thoroughly disinfected, all dirt that may have collected underneath the huts has been removed.. and the ground disinfected. CONDITIONS AT TAUHERENIKAU. COLDS AND MILD MEASLES[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUInEDIN. Wednesday. Tli*} Minister for Defence, the Hon. Junes Allen, state® that, the bulk of the men were remm .••! tvom Trentham camp on Sunday to Tauhcienikau. SurgeonGeneral Henderson and Colonel Valintine inspected the camp at Tauherenikau, and found everything excellent and the men healthy, except fur a few cases of cold and three mild cases of measles. SurgeonGeneral Henderson reports that conditions at Trentham now are quite favour-, able.