TRENTHAM CAMP.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 70, 22 July 1915, Page 3

TRENTHAM CAMP.

TWO MORE DEATHS. Per Press Associatpo,^. 'Wellington, July 21. Before the house rose to-night. Mr O’. W. Russell .asked the Minister if he had any information about the soldier patients at Wellington hospital. Ho had received information that two men had died anad two more were dying. The Minister said that he had not received any report on the matter. Seen after the House rose to-night, the Minister for Public Health stated that ho had got into touch with the authorities at Wellington hospital, and found that two men had died there, though the fact had hot been previously reported to him . One patient, suffering from ecrebro spinal meningitis. died this afternoon, and the other, admitted as a measles patient, died yesterday. The two soldiers who died in Wellington from meningitis in the last twenty-four hours arc Trooper Daniel Kempthorne, belonging to Templeton, Christchurch, who died at 11.10 p.iVi. on Tuesday in Victoria Hospital, and Private Duncan Fraser, of Pokeno, near Auckland, who died at 12.45 p.m. •in Wednesday in the general hospital. Their next-of-kin arc not ascertainable this morning. ;