GOOD HEALTH RECORD
TROOPS IN TERRITORIAL MANOEUVRES (P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 20. The health of the 9500 troops engaged in the recent Central Field Force manoeuvres was well above expectations. taking into account the winter conditions experienced and the fact that a number of men in the Engineer units were wet through for 24 hours during flood rescue operations at Palmerston North. In a 10 day trek 116 men were admitted to the public hospitals at Wellington, Palmerston North and Masterton. They had ail types of complaints from cuts, bruises, colds and mumps to a broken leg. There were 50 men left in the hospitals at the week-end, indicating that the 66 discharged had trivial complaints only. Though more than 1000 vehicles were used in the manoeuvres the number of accident cases, as distinct from sickness, was particularly light.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21969, 22 May 1941, Page 9
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138GOOD HEALTH RECORD Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21969, 22 May 1941, Page 9
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