HEALTH OF SOLDIERS
STRIKING DECREASE IN DISEASE. The Minister of Defence has received from Surgeon-General Henderson a table of comparative.figures showing the great decrease in the amount , of disease in the Treutbam and Featherston camps for the first six mouths of last year and the corresponding period of this year. Admission to hospitals: Trentnani, 230 C (720); I'eatherston, 2595 (lHi). Total, 4900 (.1864). Cases of measles, 302 (19), 386 (30); 688 (■l9). .Influenza.: 1159 (G6), (558 (169); 1817 (235). Cerebrospinal Meningitis:.— (—)■ I! (2); G (2). ' ' " . Pneumonia: G.(3), 1 (4); 7 (7).
Deaths: 6(1). 4(7); 10J8). In a memorandum attached to the table, Surgeon-General Henderson.states that the remarkable improvement in. hospital admissions is due obviously to the great diminution in the two principal infectious diseases affecting the camps, measles and influenza. In spite of the diminution within .. the camps these diseases are widely spread among the civilian population throughout the Dominion. The general sanitary conditions of the camps are greatly different to what obtained last year, especially at Trentham.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3128, 5 July 1917, Page 5
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168HEALTH OF SOLDIERS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3128, 5 July 1917, Page 5
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