OPEN-AIR TREATMENT OF CONSUMPTION.
———— ' : (By Correspondent)
WELLINGTON, this day. . Highly. satisfactory reports concern-, j ing the open-air treatment for consumnj* tion at the annexe to the Otaki Hos- j pital are reported. Patients in. the eaiif, stages of the disease have made wonderful progress. Amongst them is a young man who gained 101b in weight in about eight weeks under -the treatment, while a girl gained 71b in %ix weeks. The | patients are absolutely isolated, and . • have no communication with the hospital proper. If the Hospital Board were granted sufficient power and sufficient means to erect more extensive shelters it is considered that the an-, nexes at Otaki would be of enormous service. The Hospital Board is ot opinion that the Health Department would be well advised if -it were to abandon the idea or a consumption annexe to *ff' : " Wellington Hospital, and have Otaki institution gazetted as a perman- ' ent sanatorium for this end of the island—a purpose for which its enmaw and position render it eminently- suitable. ,
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 95, 21 April 1904, Page 4
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