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HEALTH OF CAMPS

REMAEKS BY THE DEFENCE COMv MISSION. Discussing tho health of the camps, the Defence Expenditure Commission makes the following comments:— "Trenthaiu has quite as good a 6hovring as Feathereton in health statistics, and, fortunately, the health Kite in both is excellent, and tho prido of tho medical authorities is justified. The- deathrate in tho camps is 3.81 per 1000; while the dcatli-rato of the male civil population between tho ages of twenty and, forty years is 4.02. These comparisons cannot be accepted entirely at fnco value, because it may bo contended that the trainees in ca'inp have been picked «s 6onnd in wind and limb, which could not bo "claimed for the ordinary male civilian population outside On tho other hand, conditions in camp are so widely different from those in civil life that they aro often a sovero test on a man's stamina and endurance. A better comparison, although again not entirely satisfactory, is that in tho Imperial Army, according to the latest hospital statistics available, the hospital admission rate was 437 per 1000, and the constantly eick rate 23J. In New Zealand training camps tho admission rato ie 410 per 1000,' and the constantly eick rato

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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 273, 7 August 1918, Page 4

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HEALTH OF CAMPS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 273, 7 August 1918, Page 4

HEALTH OF CAMPS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 273, 7 August 1918, Page 4

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