MILITARY CAMPS.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1915, Page 4

MILITARY CAMPS.

I'iSI'KCTKI) I'.V l'liUM.l'. MINIS','!,;;. IMI'ItuVKMKXT IN HKAI/I'U. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Yo.stcrdii >'. The Prime Minister and the Hoik •■{. •). Rhodes, accompanied by several .i.'iiihers of I'lirliament \ .sterday made a tour of inspection of the various ncv i:.mps. The lion. .las. Allen vi-iiod ifiuherinikau. Mr. Masscy stated af- -- /wards that it was quite' evident that :(e: sickness was decreasing. Ih :nought the change had already done •J:e. men good. Mr. Allen said tiiat Dr. V.ilintine is lo be the inspecting medical -■llicer for all the camps. Th< re will t.iso be an inspecting sanitation ollicor n-i'iu the Public Health Department. ( oloucl Potter will be general camp inspector. Special instructions have been •jiven for the notification of the next '■; kin as soon as the men are taken into hospital. A (.'AMP AT J.KVIX. Levin, Yesterday. On Saturday evening, at o.;il) o'clock, one hundred and til'ty men arrived here from Treiitliam, and were quartered in The Drill Hall and the Druids' Hail. Later another hundred arrived, and were quartered in the public school buildings. The nun's original destination was the Waikanae ctinip, but, on arrival there, they found that owing to the flood there was no room, and they v. ore sent 011 here. Yesterday all the men were moved to the school buihii.':gs, which now contain liol men, under Captain .lolly. The Wcraroa Hall has been set aside as a hospital. There are si veu cases. A I'AI.MERSTOX KKPORT. Palmerxton X., Yesterday, fanip matters are proceeding quietly I t'wlay. Tile men are still boused oa toe show grounds and racecourse. About tbrty from the camp at Trentham have been isolated yesterday and to-day on suspicion of measles and other complaints. THE TRKXTHAM EPIDEMIC. IXFORMATIOX SOIYHTT. (Special to Xews.i Wellington, bast Xiglit. The 'Defence authorities, headed bv the Minister for Defenre, the Hon. J. Allen, and the Minister in Charge of Military Hospitals, tlte Hon. R. H. Rhodes, do not appear to be profiting by their experience of the results of a policy of secrecy. They have moved Treiitliam camp, anil tbey have accepted, since they met their party caucus, -.omo of the suggestions that have been made to them for the improvement of •Jip conditions under which the, troopß are living, but they are still withholding !.-inanition regarding: (1) The nature of the illness that ha* afflicted the troops end (2) the number of men who have suffered.

The newspaper representatives a?k in vain for evnet information, hut one gathers nnoflicially that at the end of last week more Fhan one thousand men were in hospital, in convalescent homes or on sick leave. Your correspondent was informed that tho totnl number was nearly 1200. out of 9. total strength of "000, and this did not include the men ••Uio have been discharged as medieally unfit after suffering from pneumonia or r,o>m> other trouble.

The Ministers do not deny that the men have heen suffering from something worse than measles or influenza, but I hey make no definite statement, though the medical staff in charge of the troops must, Purely !;no\v the truth by this time. Dengue fever and cerehro-meningi-tis icre diseases that are mentioned freely. ABOUT 1(100 PATIKXTS. (Special to News.) Wellington, Last >Jight. The efforts of your correspondent to secure official figures regarding the number of soldiers who have fallen victims to sickness of one. kind or another have been unsuccessful. It is possible that

some statistics may be mailable .today. The estimate of a member of Parliament that I (>OO man have suffered during roct nt weeks may prove not very wide of the mark. The patients are scattered over a wide area, and several hundreds of men are on sick leave. The number of hospitals in use at the present timo has not been stated officially. There are patients at the Wellington public hospital, the Berhampore hospital, the Kaiwara convalescent home, the Trentham (Igppita], the Trentham racecourse, bniW- •»>. and the Herein.n. S a golf house. The golf house is stated to contain Jif invalids at the present time. Then flu-re are sick soldiers in various hom-H in llentaunga, and there are hundreds "partially sick" doing; light duties with the various units. It was staled yesterday than an imperative demand for iuionnatioii about the number of i,„. n affected might. come from I'arliameMt ll.is werk. The feeling in tin- House is running very hiir!i, and many nremlicrs feel thai t «.•»' ii'.ng <ii ;■ i 'il information Uii>v rhoufcl mixisti:i:< i:i-:.m.u.v Mrx.vr Jly Telegraph.—Press Association.

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