REPORT BY MEDICAL DIRECTOR.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14869, 18 September 1918, Page 6

REPORT BY MEDICAL DIRECTOR.

Wellington, September 17. bir James Allen has rcceivtx! . the following repo)-t from t4ie I>irectorGeneral of. Medical Servioos bore on the epidemic among the Fartieth Reinforcements:—"During tiio ixH-iod of their training here■ there, vv:a3 very "little sickness among the Fortieth Uemforeements,- only .one. infectious case of scarlet fever having occurred among them. At the first two ports of cali V,tj had reports from the ship, and tip till then the health report was good. •: From this it is obvious that no infection was carried from New" Zealand, since in the five weeks that elapsed from the departure to reaching a port of call any outbreak would have had full time for development. Nor c^n there have been anything inherent in tho sanitary condition of the ship, otherwise its effects •would have been apparent before reaching a port of call. The earliest death occurred nearly three weeks after leaving that port of call. 7"'