TRENTHAM CAMP.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1915, Page 4

TRENTHAM CAMP.

REPORT OF COMMISSION'" By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Yesterday. The Trentham Commission. ■» reports fills one hundred pages. TJie. commission finds that the sickness,' amongst other causes, was due to aggregation of so many men in a confined spare, the wetness of the ground owing to the ab. sence of efficient drainage, deficiencies In hutments, and the presence of damp clothes in them, unnecessary exposure during siok parades, and the jmdden change to camp ilife. The principal findings of the commission arc that duo care was not at all time? taken to minimise Bickness and mortality, that an efficient system for treatment of the sick did not at all times exist; that medical examination of the sick was inefficient and failed in respect to sanitation; that there was no evidence of neglect or improper treatmont in certain individual hospital cases, or of undue delay in removal of patients to hospitidj that when J.ho (amp became ovewrowd«l the surface drainage became inadequate, but tho water supply und san'tatton Were generally efficient; the camp is Buitahly situated, and iwßeasons exist for its removal if its size id limitti to 4500 men, and some recommendations for improvements, especially to the hutments, are carried out; that tbe accommodation for the men was insufficient after May 29; that, except as riiown, above, the troops were not exnoeod i» undue hardship or discomfort. As to tho question whether any official had been guilty of neglect or misconduct, the commission finds it <annot give a spccilte answer. Generally the conirai&sian «n----iiders that throughout trying condition* all ranks acquitted (hgmselves as soldiers and men, and the militant (ride of the camp adni'nistration worked unspßjingly.