Soldiers Invalided.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) Wellington, last night,
Thirteen men of the Eighth and Tenth Rogimonts are now in Wellington. Hospital, and forty-five in a temporary military hospital at Soames Island. Following is the latest report on the patients in Wellington Hospital: “ Sergeant Alexander Pender (Wellington), pneumonia, convalescent; Sergeant Hans Larsen (Daunpvirke), pneumonia, convalescent; Private David Dean, measles, bad ; Private Albert Tonks (Hokianga), measles bad, also bronchial pneumonia, bad ; Shoeing-smith Isaac A. Blissett (Addington, Canterbury), slow continuous fever, getting better ; Private Ohirton (Tenth Regiment), pneumonia and enteric, bad hut improving ; Private James G. McHarry (Kokatahi, West Coast), pnoumonia and enteric, bad but improving ; Private Henry Nelson (Levin), pneumonia and enteric, bad hut improving; 6142 (?) Private Roy, bronchial pneumonia, improving ; Private Ernest E. Duke (Lyttelton), enteric, bad but improving ; Corporal Samuel McCaully (Oropuki, Southland), quinsey, improving ; Private William Scott (Stirling, Otago), measlos, bad ; Saddlor August A. Peterson (Kaitoke), scariot fever, improving.” A majority of tho men in the Soames Island Hospital are measles patients, and none of tho cases aro serious.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 496, 7 August 1902, Page 4
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