MILITARY CAMPS
fAKAPAU AND ORINGI COMPAKEO Officers and men attending campe in wet weather have vivid recollections ol Bore throete and feTerieh chille inseparably oonnccUd with damp fe*t and endd*a changee of temperature. At the Oxinjfi camp in 1915 the medical staff were kept buay up till «U hour., •ad there were over 1000 minor cases ot Mcknese reported *t the ambulance. . ax Takapat! ia 1914, despite the *Hy severe weather, only a few dozen reported sick," and the general health of the men wa» remarkable good. Now for a solution of this eeeiaing Paradox! At the Oringi canteen there wae no "Fluenzol," but plenty of other preparations. At Takapau the position irae reversed. The canteen contractors pmned th« r faith solely to "M™ D *<*\ of which over two gross in the aggregate wae purchased "by the troops. In many instances one bottle would go the rounds cf a tent and be the means of checking more than one incipient cure throat o* Uverish attack * Comment ie needless 1
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14988, 8 June 1914, Page 5
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169MILITARY CAMPS Press, Volume L, Issue 14988, 8 June 1914, Page 5
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