MILITARY CAMPS
TAKAPAU AND OEINGI COMPAKEJ>
Officers and men attending canipe va wet weather have vivul recollections oi sore throats and feverish chills inseparably connected with damp feet and sudden changes of temperature. At the unntri camp in 1913 the medical sufi were kept busy up till all hours, there were over 1000 minor cases o* eicknsas reported at the ambulance. At Takapau vi 19H, despite the cxctpaoaallv tevere weather, oalv a f« w dozen "reported sick," and the general bealtn of the men was, retnarkabi" good. Now for a solution of this seeming paradox: At the Uringi canteen tnera was no "Fiuenzol." but plenty of otbei Pre pa tar io as V: Taka}»« the position was rever-ej The canteen contractors Pinned their "faith «oiely to -'YXwntaU oi which over fao s-"O" in the apgregate was purchased b- the troops- In many instances one bottle would go the round* of a tent and be tbe means of cneckmg more than one incipient cure throat or feverisa attack Commeiit i» needless:
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14986, 5 June 1914, Page 3
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170MILITARY CAMPS Press, Volume L, Issue 14986, 5 June 1914, Page 3
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