CAMPS AND THE MEN

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2697, 17 February 1916, Page 6

CAMPS AND THE MEN

TENTH ROUTE MARCHING TO-DAY GASTRIC SICKNESS ABATING During to-day and to-morrow there will be a general post taking place among tho 10th, 11th, and 12th Infantry Reinforcements. Very early this morning the 10th were to march out or' the permanent tent camp at Featherston on their way to Trentham. The 11th, which have been occupying a portion of the hutment camp, will move into tho tents vacated by the 10th. To-morrow morning the 12th Infantry Reinforcements will entrain .at- Trentham for Featherston, and: will tako the llth's place in that camp. As on former occasions, when earlier Reinforcements crossed the Rimutakas,. a light meal, consisting of tm, .sandwiches, and boiled eggs, will be provided at The Summit by residents of featherston.

, A Milk Diet. For tho?e soldiers in camp who are not ill enough to lio up, but who do not feel inclined for the rogular diet, special cooking is provided. They are also allowed a milk diet, and those who have been ordered this treatment attend at the dairies at stated times and receive pannikins of milk. In some instances the dairies are situated near hutments occupied by recruits, and some of these men, on seeing tho milk being handed out, have at times expressed envy of thoso who were privileged to have a draught of cool milk. Later acquaintance with camp practices have, of course, explained tho matter to them. Camp Sickness Abating. Yesterday's hospital figures at tho Featherston Camp Hospital show that the gastric sickness which has affected some of the men is abating. Of 18 men in hospital yesterday morning, seven were discharged and ono admitted, leaving J2 in hospital from this cause. The Director-General of Medical Services, Surgeon-General Henderson, stated, regarding the numbers on sick parade at that camp since February 4, that tho largest muster of men suffering from gastric trouble was 181; of those only 12 were ill enough for hospital treatment. Appointments at Featherston. The following temporary appointments have been approved by the Camp Commandant at Featherston:—Pte. F. J. M'Carthy, A Squadron, 12th, to be record sergeant; Pte. H. C. 'Thompson, B Squadron, 12th, to bo record sergeant; Pte. J. C. Alexander, C Squadron, 12th, to be record sergeant; Pte. A. T. Bowdcry, D Squadron, 12th, to be record sergeant; Pte. L. H. Lindlsay, Headquarters, Records Office, to be corporal; Pte. A. R. M'Dougall, Headquarters, Records Office, to be corporal; Pte. C. F. Thompson, B Squadron, to be farrier. Returned Soldiers Report for Duty. 1 The following returned soldiers having reported at Trentham for duty have been transferred as under: —'j/1064a Gunner E. R. Williams, 3rd Reinforcements, details; 2/1902 Driver J. E. Turner, N.Z.F.A., sth, N.Z.F.A., 10th; 8/583 Pte. A. C. Goodlctt, 0.1.8., M.8., D Company, 10th; 6/360 Pte. C. R. Steer, 0.1.8., M.8., C Company, 10th; 12/41 Sergt. G. A. Wisbart, A.1.8., M.8., A Company, 10th; 10/2683 Re. W. W. Thorby, B Company, 3rd, B Company, 10th; 12/589 .Sergt. T. M. M'Geehan, A.1.8., M.8., A Company, 10th. Appointments at Trentham. The following temporary appointments have been approved of by the Camp Commandant at Trontham: — Headquarters Staff. —Ccrpl. A. Bloch, to be sergeant.

Now Zealand Field Artillery, lltb Reinforcemonts. —Corpl. H. B. Grave, to ■bo 6ergeant; Bombardier L. T. Esquilant and Bombardier T. Kirton, to be corporals; Gunner J. A. Sim and Gunner W. Smith, to be bombardiers. New Zealand Artillery, 12th Reinforcements. —Bombardiers G. W. Crawford and P. E. Cameron, to be corporals. C Company, 13th Reinforcements.— Corporals C. A. S. Hind, 0. Sotheran, E. D. Reid, E. S. Foden, J. Hardy, N. G. M'Lean, M. R. O'Cailaghan, li. L. Simson, J. V. Wilson, to bo sergeants. D Company, 13tli Reinforcements.— Corpl. H. V. Goodsir, to be company sergeant-major; Corpls. B» Tweodie, J. M. King, A. Bell, W. Thomson, L. W. Potter, R. S. Bremner, W. Marcussen, H. B. Dodds, to be sergeants. E Company, 13th Reinforcements.— Corpl. R. A. Edwards, to be company sergeant-major; Corpls. J. Hessell, J. ,T. M'Gbie, G. D. Snell, 0. J. L. Mollison, J. J. Bishop, B. J. Loudon. C. L. Carter, P. S. Williams, to be sergeants.

G Company, 13th Reinforcements.— Corpl. J. N. Bullard, to be sergeantmajor; Corpls. B. L. Bellman, G. I. Bridge, R. Hounsell, S. W. Kornohan, N. Swanson, to be sergeants. Captain 0. J. Hollard, G Company, 12th, has returned to Trentham from sick leave.

Elevnnth on Leave, The Eleventh Reinforcements will begin their extended leave on February 24, and will complete it on March 7, when all will be back in camp. Special train and steamer arrangements are published in the Camp Orders. Camps and Flies, Trentham camp is a clean camp.? There are few flies, signifying that there is practically no dirt. But this result is only achieved by strict attention to details of sanitation and hygiene. The officer in charge_ of this department must personally visit every part of the ground and inspect every barrack room. It was to encourage cleanliness that a prize was given for the cleanest hutment. It was found soon after this had been done that the men of each company, instead of keeping all their hutments centralised their efforts on one of tho rooms and made it spick and span, while the other hutments occupied by them were only so-so. The prists is now awarded to the company with the cleanest hutments, and another one is to the company which sets its beds and bedding and other gear out in the sunshine in the neatest rows. Lieutenant Riddell, the officor who has been closely associated with the work of making Trentham clean, has been lent to the Featherston camp. In conjunction with Professor Kirk and aided by a sergeant-major] who had 1 charge of sanitation in Maymorn, and 10 men from Awapuni, Lieutenant Riddell is taking stops to clean all dirt and flies from the camp, which, though new, has been occupied 1 by a number of men for a long time and by hundreds of horses. - The method of stoping out tho flies is by spraying. Even the interiors of the tents are sprayed. At night it is found that the flies gather round the top of the tentpole. Here the sprayer finds them and quickly wipes them out.