TRENCH MOUTH.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3422, 28 February 1920, Page 6

TRENCH MOUTH.

RECURRENCE OF THE DISEASE. The fact that no consistent examination was made during the full period under which soldiers were being discharged from the Expeditionary Force for trench mouth (Vincent's disease) is now causing some inconvenience to a number of soldiers upon whom the disease is recurring. Many‘ patients were treated in the army for trench mouth, and are now suffering from a repetition of the trouble; on applying to the Defence Department for treatment, however, they are ‘informed that the Government can take no responsibility wahtever for cases in which -the disease recurs‘, The Defence Department states that once a- man is treated and cured, no recurrence is jrossible except as the direct result of negligence in the care of the mouth. It is known that numbers of members of the ExIleditionary Force who have suffered from the disability have never had a. test taken as to whether they Were rid of it. 5 The Returned Soldiers’ Associations throughout ~the Wellington district are endeavouring. to get in touch with men who are suffering from trench mouth and who Were not examinedand pronounced cured, and gum to locate men>who have been discharged whilst still suffering from the diseaSe_