SICK SOLDIERS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 63, 7 December 1917, Page 4

SICK SOLDIERS

H? — : NUMBERS UNDER TREATMENT. The return received by tho Minister of Public Health regarding the sick and wounded soldiers and discharged men in institutions under the control of the Public Health Department is made available for publication. The figures, which follow, aro for the week ending November 26. - In all hospitals, there were on that date 355 soldiers under treatment as in-patients, and 315 as outpatients. There were also 376 discharged men under treatment as in-patients, and 191 as out-patients; a grand total of 1237. These were distributed as follow:—Auckland, 70 in-patients and 108 out-patients;-Wellington, 33 inpaticnte and 7.4...0ut-patients; Christchurch, 31 in-patients and 30 outpatients; Dunedin, 36 in-patients and 134 out-patients. Smaller numbers of men are in tho lesser hospitals in other towns. For the convalescent sanatoria the figures are as follow:— Dis- . ..:'., ', charged Soldiers, men. Kins; George V Hospital (Rotorua) 71 32 Rotorua Sanatorium 40 30 Epsom 5 12 Devonport 9 — Lovrry Bay 6 18 Quepn Mary - Hospital (Hanmer) ,44 58 Various consumptive sanatoria ;....,..,. 37 42 The mental patients amount to 26 in nil institutions; twelve of them soldiore not yet .discharged, and 14 o! them discharged: - - •