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Note. —In Featherston Camp 4 deaths from cerebro-spinal meningitis are included in the 165 deaths from influenza infection; in Trentham Camp 5 deaths from cerebro-spinal meningitis are included in the 73 deaths from influenza infection. It will be seen that there were only 2 deaths by suicide, as compared with 8 in 1917, 3 in 1916, and 4 in 1"915. Sickness. Owing to difference in classification of the returns, comparative figures for the incidence rate of illness in the four camps are not accurate. For the first two quarters of the year the admis-sion-rate to hospital at Featherston was below that of 191.7. In the third quarter it rose from 42 per thousand average strength to 144 per thousand. This was due to the first wave of influenza. In the fourth quarter it rose to 584 per thousand, a result of the second wave. At Trentham the rate was slightly higher throughout the first two quarters than in 1917. In the third quarter it rose to 365 per thousand, due to a very widespread first wave of influenza. In the fourth quarter it rose to 705 per thousand, due to the November second wave of influenza. At Awapuni and Narrow Neck the sickness-rate in the last two quarters is similarly increased. Infectious Disease. In the following table is shown the incidence of various forms of infectious disease among men attached to the four camps in 1918 as compared with. 191.7 : —

Cause. I a Camp. Out of Camp. Total. KEATHERSTON CAM Il>. Influenza infection .. Cerebro-spinal meningitis Asthma Tubercle of lung Pneumonia Diabetes Suicide Accidental death Alcoholic poisoning .. 165 4 1 1 I 8 2 1 I 1 I I 173 6 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 i Totals 172 15 187 TRENTHAM CAMP, I nfluenza infection .. Cerebro-spinal meningitis Valvular disease of heart Apoplexy Carcinoma Accidental death Suicide 73 2 2 3 1 1 I 14 87 2 2 3 1 1 1 Totals 83 14 97 awapuni: camp. 2 1 7 1 Influenza infection . . Tubercle of lung Totals 5 5 3 8 NARROW NEOK CAT MP. Influenza infection .. .. , 14 3 f 17

Feathorston. Trcntham. Awapuni. Disease. 1917. 1918. j 1917. I 1918. | 1917. 1918. j Narrow Neck. To la Is. I ... .... . 1917. 1918. 1917. 1918. Cerebro-spinal meningitis 10 44 3 II Measles .. .. 28 MO 26 118 Diphtheria .. ..11 9 8 3 2 Enteric fever . . 1 1 1 Scarlet fever . . .. 2 6 2 1 Chicken-pox . . \% 4 3 1 .. Erysipelas .. .. ■ 1 2 I 2 .. Simple pneumonia . . 7 (i 4 3 5 Broncho-pneumonia . . .. 320 . . 203 . . 27 Influenza 4,202 .. 3,024 .. 226 Totals.. .. 62 4,734 j 48 3,366 4 258 13 54 21 3 1 or, 258 12 I I 5 27 226 1 5 2 14 7 5 4 II 550 7,884 432 258 2 432 432 116 I 8,790