CAMP HEALTH

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2857, 23 August 1916, Page 4

CAMP HEALTH

GENERAL HENDERSON'S STATEMENT. Yesterday Surgeon-General Henderson mado "a further statement to the Press regarding tho health of the men in the military camps. General Henderson said he regretted to have to state that a further death from cerebro-spinal meningitis had occurred at Trentham Camp. This was tho case of a man named Brown from the 19th Reinforcements. He had been in hospital eleven days suffering from measles, and on Monday developed cerebro-spinal meningitis of a malignant type. He died at 9.30 yesterday morning. Of the five other .cases of C.S.M. at Trentham four wore getting along well, while the fifth case, which was serious, had shown a distinct improvement. So far there had been no further cases of suspected C.S.M. at Trentham. "I made a most careful inspection on Monday of tho hutments to bo occupied by the. 17th Reinforcements and the 22nd N.C.O.'s," proceeded General Kenderson. "They had been thoroughly cleaned, disinfected, and whitewashed inside, and the drains adjusted so as to render them as sanitary as possible. They were perfectly safo for the mei\ to go into. Considering tho amount of rain .that had fallen the camp seemed dry, th'is applying particularly to the roads. Also of three 10ft-. deep pits that had been dug at both ends of the camp, one was dry, while the other two had no more than an inch of water in them. The remaining hutments are being treated the same as those for tho 17th Reinforcement, and the 22nd N.C.O.'s, and will lie available for occupation later on. Yesterday morning there were about 25 of the 17th on Bick parade. Of these one was a case of suspected measles; the others were mild complaints." General Henderson added that at ■ Featherston Camp the corobro-spinal moningitis case had become critical, and there was another suspected case of C.S.M. from the 18ths. Otherwise, the report from Featherston was satisfactory.