AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIA.

LIVERPOOL CAMP. COMMITTEE'S EEPOP.T. , v Sydney, Dec. 0. Received Dee. 0, 115 p.m. ' The Standing- Sanitary Committee, composed of army medical heads and other experts, reporting on the Liverpool Camp, makes a number of suggestions for improving the sanitary and health conditions. The committee says that tlie proportion of sickness and incapacity in the camp is much too high, and 'believes that it could he very greatly diminished. Some deaths, and much ill-health and incapacity wen' traceable to the toxic effects of alcohol, and there is evidence that alcoholism is prevalent and excessive amongst recruits. The committee is convinced that if drunkenness were checked venereal disease would be much less common, and the susceptibility of men to other infectious disease would toe diminished. The committee believes that there is no other single case having so profound an .effect on the health and efficiency of the troops, and therefore recommends the establishment of a wet canteen inside, or just close to, the camp for the sale of the right kind of ales and wines; that the Liverpool district be put out of bounds, so eliminating public-houses and women of ill repute; closing' all public-houses, excepting authorised canteens throughout the State, to soldiers in uniform after (i p.m.; shouting for a soldier to he made illegal, and drunken nes« penalised by curtailment of leave. HOSPITAL FOR EGYPT, •<-,. Melbourne, Dec. if. The Venereal Diseases Hospital is forming a service in Egypt. The staff will consist of seven officers, including four bacteriologists, one dermatologist, and 118 other?, c&pabk el dealing with 1040 pMiWitli