ARRIVAL OF PORT MELBOURNE
- "_« 1 TEOOPS' HEALTH SATISFACTORY. By TeleeraDh.-Frcfls Association. Auckland March G. The transport Port Melbourne arrived tins morning with 1215 returned soldiers. She will be quarantined for 24 hours. The health of the troops ia satisfactory. There were 59 cases of influenza and pneumonia, and oue death, during tb« voyage. The first case occurred the day lifter leaving Britain; the last on February , 15. Two convalescents are «till in hospital. , MEN" PASSING THROUGH INHALATION CHAMBER. . The Public Health authorities have instructed the District Health' Officer to disinfect the soldiers' kits on the Port Melbourne, and to pass all the men through en inhalation chamber. This is being carried out to-night, and the port officer savs the work should bo finished by 7.30 to-morrow morning, and the ship will then be brought to the wharf and the men medically boarded,. the southern mea leaving by special train at 7.30 tomorrow evening.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 139, 7 March 1919, Page 5
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153ARRIVAL OF PORT MELBOURNE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 139, 7 March 1919, Page 5
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