MILITARY CAMPS

Press, Volume L, Issue 14979, 28 May 1914, Page 3

MILITARY CAMPS

TAKAPAU AND OEINGI COMPAKED

Officers and men attending campe ia wet weather have vivid recollections ot core throate and fererieh chills inseparably connected with, damp feet and euddeft changes of temperature. At the Oringi camp in 1913 the niedi- ' cal etafl were kept buey up till all houra. and there were over 1000 minor cases ©f sickness reported a t the ambulance. At Takapaa in J3U, despite the exceptionally severe weathw only & few dozen "reported eick." and the general health . of the men was , remarkable good. | Now for a eolation of this seeming paradox! At the Oringi canteen there wae no "Flnenzol," but plenty of o.thei ; preparatione. At Takapau th* position j was rerereed. The canteen contractor*. 1 pinned their faith eolely to "Fiaenzol," ' of which over two grose in the aggregate wae pnrchs&ed hv the troops. In many instances one bottle would B° toe rounds of a tent and be the mean* of checking taore than one incipient core throat or- j feverish attack. 1 Comment is needless 1. ■ • ;