MAHENO ARRIVES AT AUCKLAND.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17552, 23 April 1919, Page 5

MAHENO ARRIVES AT AUCKLAND.

(Per Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, April 22. The Majieno finished her career as a hospital ship to-day, when she arrived at Auckland with the worst •cases that remained in the English hospitals. The Maheno brought 22 officers, four nursing sisters, and 366 of other ranks. At the commencement of the voyage the cot cases numbered 250, and at the conclusion they were reduced to 55. Several of these arc in a critical condition. Others will require treatment for some considerable time. The patients were embarked at Avonmouth on March 1 Oth, and the vessel sailed for New Zealand the same evening. The passage across the Atlantic was a very stormy one. Although influenza was raging in England when the hospital ship left, and many of the orderlies were down with the disease, the epidemic on board was speedily stamped out by means of an inhalation chamber, which was in constant use on the ship. Strict isolation was maintained and none of the patients contracted the disease. The massage department was particularly busy, a large number of the patients requiring orthopaedic treatment, which will be continued in New Zealand.

The Governor-General boarded the Maheno and welcomed the men. After disembarking the Auckland troops the Maheno sailed for Wellington.