Care of Military Trainees.

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 96, 4 December 1939, Page 2

Care of Military Trainees.

Everything possible would be done to prevent a recurrence of the recent food poisoning suffered by soldiers in training at the Papakura camp, said the Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Junes, in an interview foliowing his official inspection of the camp. Prior to the outbreak, he said, plans had been prepared for the provision of refrigerated rooms, and the installation of these would be pushed ahead rapidly, for the present system of cooling the meat had been entirely satisfactory. Referring to the prevalence of iniiuenza, Mr Jones said numbers of soldiers had been affected by the current epidemic, which was not confined to the camp. Most of these men were sent to the camp hospital, and if they were not better

within -IS hours the medical officer in charge sent them to the hospital. 'Parents should not be alarmed because their sons were ordered to hos pital. It merely meant that they were going to a place where the authorities were in a better position to look after the lads. If they Avere in ciA T il life, nine-tenths of them would not be sent. When the neAV hospital block was completed at Papakura, the soldiers would be better looked, after than eA T er.