SICKNESS IN CAMP

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2869, 6 September 1916, Page 4

SICKNESS IN CAMP

9 TWO DEATHS FROM MENINGITIS. Two additional deaths of soldiers from cercbro-spinal meningitis were reported by tho military authorities yesterday. Trooper 11. B. Coad, Twentieth Mounted Rifles Reinforcements, developed the disease at Featherston Camp on Sunday and died in the camp hospital yesterday morning. _ His mother resides at Hawera. Private James H. Watson, Trentham Details, died in tho Mastertou ' Hospital on Monday evening. He had been ill for some time. His next-of-kin is his brother, Trooper A. Watson, Twenty-first Mounted Rifles Reiuforcements. General Henderson, Director of Medical Services, stated yesterday that tho remaining cerebro-spiual meningitis case at Featherston had shown somo improvement. One case at Trentham was still classed as serious, but the other eases wece convalescent: There are nor' about 140 measles eases in the Featherston Hospital, but many of them are ' nearly ready for discharge. Five eases of measles wore' reported among the Seventeenth Reinforcements ■at Trentham yesterday., and all the contacts have been isolated in the canvas x canip. The measles is of tho mild tvpe developed at Featherston, where the outbreak is reported to ho subsiding.