INFLUENZA OUTBREAK
CONDITIONS AT PAPAKURA. EMERGENCY HOSPITAL CREATED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. June 6. To cope with the influenza epidemic which has broken out in the Papakura camp an emergency hospital was created in a few hours .today at the Ellerslie racecourse. Two resident doctors from the Auckland hospital staff, nurses and V.A.D.’s and a corps of telephonists, clerks, orderlies and cooks will take charge tomorrow, when the first of the 250 beds being prepared will be occupied. By C a.m. it is expected 80 soldiers will have been made comfortable in warm and spacious wards provided by the stewards’ and the members’ dining-rooms in the main grandstand. By the evening about 125 will be accommodated in the racecourse buildings. The Auckland Hospital and the Epsom infirmary have reached the. stage where more men can be admitted only when others have been discharged. This (was the case today, so that the total of influenza patients from camp in both institutions remains at about 126. At the camp there are at least another 150 awaiting evacuation to the emergency hospital.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1940, Page 2
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