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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9093, 12 July 1915, Page 5

When inquiries are made at the hospital as to the cause of a soldier’s death, the stereotyped reply is: “Measles and complications’’ —whichmay mean a little or a great deal. It "is stated on good authority that the men almost always recover from the first attack of measles, but move about and sometimes return to duty in the period which should hq^treated as convalescent, and a relapse is the result. The authorities have stated that the deaths at the camp have been practically all of pneumonia, but a “Times” reporter was informed yesterday that a much more serious disease than pneumonia—bad though that is —has occurred in the camp. This is cerehro-spiual meningitis, ope of the most dreaded illnesses likely to lead to an epidemic. The first symptoms of this frequently fatal disease, are somewhat similar to those of pneumonia. It was stated that several oases have occurred, though it was not known whether deaths had ensued. If the information is correct, it probably accounts for the isolation of the ramp and the sudden decision to move it. As tho result of attempting tp commit suicide recently on a troop train running from Auckland to Wellington, Archibald Thomas, of Thames, has been ordered by Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., at Palmerston North, to come up for sentence when called upon, and to pay £34 los.