TRENTHAM.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1915, Page 5

TRENTHAM.

l MUCH SICKNESS. '(By Telegraph.—Special to Daily News.) Wellington, Last Night. "I have iVen watching the hospital '.reports from Trentham camp," said Dr, Newman ■(Wellington East), this evening. ■"The amount oi." sickness is increasing, and !l vwrrn the Minister for Defence that (there is a & r cat deal too much sickness at Trentham. The number of hospltu 1 admissions it' increasing day by day, and I am confident .there is much more sii'kness tli.un thero enould be. It is perfectly clear t,"> m «» wlffh my xpedical knowledge, that , y > erc ' 9 something wrong wiYJi the a >*. sickness occurs anion* P'cked young men who have all been ca 11,, .V examined by the doctors. I m-ge > V Minister to locOc into this matter to-m <w ® x ' morn " The Defence Minister made ''*ZX*W'' In t)Le House this evening, Dr. Sto* 0 • wrged more attention being gW** B ** Trentham Camp. He said a gootl . cases were going into hospital, and \, presaging the coming storm. j especially complained of the lack Ot washing facilities, the bathing parade twice a week in the cold icy wate** of the Hutt river was quite rion-etfaSteri. To increase the camp numbers frotff four thousand to seven thousand was utterly, wrong, because dean fresh men were placed among infected men. ■ ■' The Minister said i\fd liilndVed' shower baths ouglit to be ready now. He realised that something would h»ve to be done to relieve the Wellington Rsoinfc Club of the present Use 1 of VWA* ings. He was assured by offieew in camp that there were no eigne which could be construed into the posjibility of a coming storm.