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i ! THE INVALIDED TROOPERS. ' With the exception of Troopers M'Kechnie and Heenan and Sergeant-major Long, a!! the leturned men, who are invalided, are making decidedly f<tvouiable progress towards recovery. The condition of the three men named :s, howvei, it is to be regretted, critical, and their cases are regaided as serious. Dr De Lautour I received a wire from the Premier on Saturday that he would be glad to receive piogress reports regarding the condition of the invalids, and later in the day, after making his rounds, the doctor repherl as foJ'ows: —"ln Dunedin Hospital: M'Kechnie and Sergeant-major Long, dangerous; Heenan, senous, improving; Lieutenant Ferguson, better; Cheeseman, Atidvews, and Brown, convalescent; Ross (Kart'gi), abscess and deafness, admitted yesterday, improving; Aitken, much better. At Miss Tombb's private hospital • Corporal Bell, much, better; Saddler W. Murphy, discharged home (Chnstchurch) convalescent. Miss Church's hospital: Hardy (Chnstchiuch), discharged convalescent; F. C. Lang «nd Henry Draper/- im-pt-oving. Miss Stronaoh's hospital Sergeantmajor Murphy, relapse malaria, better this momirg, Campbell, convalescent. Many tioopeis imdei out-pate nt treatment." [ .
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Otago Witness, Issue 2471, 24 July 1901, Page 24
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174BACK FROM THE WAR. Otago Witness, Issue 2471, 24 July 1901, Page 24
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