HYGIENE COURSE FOR TROOPS
COMPULSORY SOON Sydney, Sept. 12. j Before long it will be compulsory j J for every newly-enlisted soldier to : take a course in camp hygiene during i ! his first 12 weeks of training. This Army reform, it is hoped, will ] improve the health of the troops and ; reduce enormously the risk of danger- j ous epidemics sweeping through the , ranks of the Service. In this war. the only epidemic of consequence among Australian troops was an epidemic of dysentery which occurre 1 in a N.S.W. camp in the first few months of mobilisation. It was a lesson the Army did not forget. Now, thanks to strict comp hygiene precautions, the health of the troops has been greatly improved and epidemics are negligible. At the Australian Army Hygiene School, extraordinarily painstaking work is being done to train non-com- | missioned officers in modern methods of military preventive medicine. Hygiene sergeants from all over j Australia attend the school for three : weeks, listening to lectures, perform- ! ing practical work, and finally going j on a five-day bivouac where they : learn to improvise the construction ' of camp hygiene equipment in the ! bush. The ingenuity shown in making this ! equipment out of scrap and salvaged !
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 14 October 1942, Page 1
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