DEALING WITH CONSUMPTION.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7813, 4 June 1909, Page 2

DEALING WITH CONSUMPTION.

Per Press Association —Copyright. , LONDON, June 3. Mr John Burns, President of the Local Government Board, opened a Tuberculosis Exhibition at Whitechapel, intended to illustrate methods of preventing the disease and minimising its effects. Mr Burns claimed that Great Britain led the crusade against tuberculosis, remarking that direct remedies were higher wages, less drink, less betting, and more regular work, adding that open windows would_ stamp out consumption m a generation. A number of suffragists were ejected for persistently interrupting Mr Burns.

The Local Government Board took an interesting step the other day, m ordering that notification should be given all cases of tuberculosis that came under the- notice of the poor-law authorities. Prior to that notification obtained m only a few English towns. The chief medical officer to the Board recently issued a memorandum to parochial medical officers', explaining the best methods of preventing patients becoming sources of infection. The idea of a Tuberculosis Exhibition has been tried with success m Ireland. There it was made a movable affair, thousands of people all over the country visiting it, and inspecting its warnings and methods of treatment.