TRENTHAM CAMP.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1915, Page 8

TRENTHAM CAMP.

ROYAL COMMISSION. By Telegraph— Press Association. Wellington, July 23. At tlic TiTiitlmm iiKjuiry Magnus Badger, sergeant in {.lie Field Ambulance, who is not routed to the Badgers nlreadv mentioned, said he was mi duty at the Kiosk. )t was not his duty to advise the olliee of serious cusps. Fron June 2S the patients were regularly washed and every facility given to patients to communicate with their relatives. Drs. Ferguson and Harrison were very attentive, and did not spare themselves. He never observed anything wrong with the food. Colonel Purely said that when the Trenthani Regiment and .Seventh Reinforcements were mobilised they brought in a very virulent form of influenza. .Some serious eases were sent to Ibrhaniphoro Hospital, but he knew nothing of them for some time. They could not get more buildings at Trentliam for accommodation of the sick. On Colonel Purdy's suggestion, the Commission agreed to call a, member of the Evening Post's stair, who personally investigated the medical criticism. Ronald Badger, of Christehureh, brother of Lionel Badger, who died in camp on July 4, gave evidence of the result lof inquiries made in that ease. Souie patients in the racecourse kiosk were not washed for three days. Only inexperienced orderlies attended the' men till June 27, when three nurses arrived. He was informed that patients with high temperatures were given half-cook-ed ground rice for dinner. Witness gavo details as to the delay in notifying his family of his brother's serious condition. "Walter Reynolds, bootmaker, criticised the materials of which the boots were made.