TAUHERENIKAU CAMP

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3139, 18 July 1917, Page 3

TAUHERENIKAU CAMP

HOSPITAL AND ISOLATION QUARTERS GOOD HEALTH OP TROOPS The segregation camp at Tanhcrenikau, where the Thirtieth Reinforcements are quartered, and the training hospital at Tauhereuikau Racecourse were inspected yesterday by General .Henderson, .Direc-tor-General of Medical Services, who was accompanied by Lieutenant-Colonel Andrews, P.J1.0. of Treuthani Camp, and Major Graham Robertson, P.J1.0. of i'entherston. In spite of the very wet weather which has been experienced lately, the canvas camp was found to bo in a satisfactory condition. This was due, in great part, to the roading and draining works which have been carried out. Roads and paths made of metal and well rolled counc-ct the various parts of the cuuip. while a system of, soak-pits carries oft', the surface water. A visit was made first to the isolation camp, the solitary occupant ol which wns a diphtheria contact who hailed from •Nelson. This camp, which consists of about a dozen tents, is in a very good contiifion and reflects credit on the ji.e.o. in charge. In the main camp at Tauherenikau. a good (teal of constrvstittn. -\\-ovk \\as \>eevi earned out. Perhaps the most noticeable of these, to the civilian mind, are the institutes, drying rooms, and the canteen, Under the segregation scheme, the soldiers from the four main districts are expected to meet only in the open air. The institutes being recognised meeting places, they have been designed on the onen-10-the-air principle. The Salvation Army's roomy institute, which has been .in existence for moiv than a year, is being altered. The front of it, facing the sheltered aspect, has been taken out and a wide verandah is being made. Near this building is the new institute of the Y.M.C.A. It is a substantial building, containing Jai-ffe rooms. On the side facing the prevailing winds' there are windows, but on the sheltered side there are none, only large open porches. The Church of Englaud ' and Presbyterian Institutes are also being built on these lines. The canteen has been in full operation at Tauherenikuti for some time. Now it is being altered by having a wide open verandah built oil one side, 'this will he a refreshment cafe, while, further nlong will be open counters where sales will be conducted. The building itself will not be entered by the soldiers. There are four drying" rooms, one to each section of the camp, and these are of the pattern which has proved so successful in Trentham and Peatherston Camps. Each section also has its own cookhouse, built on the most approved pattern, with fly-proof butchers' shops and stores.' The hospital block, which is nearly completed, was pronounced by the experts to be well designed and adequate. From the wide, deep, open porch, where the patients assemble, a door leads into the examination room, from which the patients go to the chiropodist, the dispensary, or the casualty ward. The inhalation room also opens upon the waiting room. The four groups of tents, each numbering over 100, are situated at the corner of a largo square, and with the adoption of this idea, the square is assuming the appearance of a grassy space, dotted with totara and birch trees. The roads and paths all lead around it.

The maiu hospital for the Tauherenifcau Camp is at the racecourso of that name, and it is a testimony to the healthfulness of the camp that only sixteen patient? are in this hospital. They are in the ward in the totalisator house. The selling windows on one side and the pay-out- windows on the other side of the long room ate tie ouly indications o? the purpose • for wh ioh the place was formerly used. Thirty beds, each with a pink counterpane, occupy the room, and leading from it'are dispensaries, kitchens, and lavatories. The temperature yesterday, as shown by the thermometers, was 64 degrees Fahrenheit, and the hot-water radiators, installed by the Taring club make it possible to regulate this important hospital factor. The Twenty-ninth Medical Corps .Reinforcements -provide ttve hosuita\ slaß, tt\e medical officer in charge being- Major Little, with Sister Richardson as matron.