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NINETY IN HOSPITAL AT WANGANUI BROUGHT FROM ,WAIOURU CAMP. INFLUENZA & OTHER CASES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI, This Day. With the arrival of 20 further sick soldiers by railway ambulance late last night, the number from the Waiouru Camp being treated in Wanganui was brought to 90. Of these 87 are in the St. Paul’s Church Hall emergency hospital and 11 in the Wanganui Public Hospital, all having arrived since Tuesday. Most of them are suffering from influenza, but there are some cases of measles and mumps. During August, 235 soldier patients from Waicuru were treated in Wanganui. Because of the number of patients in the Wanganui Hospital, the board Js considering the converting of the Wanganui Health Camp into an emergency hospital.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1941, Page 6
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