SICKNESS IN CAMPS
THE MEASLES' OUTBREAK AT IJEATHERSTON. No additional case of cerebro-spina] meningitis' has been reported in the military camps. General _ Henderson, Director of Medical Services, stated yesterday that the caso at Featherston was improving. Of the two cases at Trentliam still on the serious list, ono was doing very well, and the other's condition was reported to be unchanged. Additional oases of measles are still being reported at Featherston, and the parents have overflowed into the racecourse pavilion at Tauherenikau. The sickness is very mild, some of the men having merely a rash without any riso in temperature. There were 143 measles cases in at Featherston yesterday, and of this number 87 men had come from the Eighteenth Reinforcements, 10 from the' Nineteanth, and 6 from the Twentieth. Tho patients from the Twentieth Reinforcements reached canip only last week, and so must have . Drought the infection with them. General Henderson mentioned that the health of the troops at Trentliam was good. The warm weather had made conditions there much more pleasant.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2864, 31 August 1916, Page 6
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173SICKNESS IN CAMPS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2864, 31 August 1916, Page 6
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