TREATMENT OF CONSUMPTIVES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 42, 18 February 1908, Page 6

TREATMENT OF CONSUMPTIVES.

At the meeting of ihe Hospital Board yesterday afternoon a communication Tras received from Br. J- S. Purdy, district health officer, regretting Ms inability "to attend to assist in coming to a definite decision as to accommodation for consumptives. The alternative to having IS on the actual grounds of the hospital • was to adopt Mr. BagnalTs suggestion, and approach the City Council to allow a lease of part of the Domain adjoining the hospital. Now that recent medical research | ihad laid to rest the bogey of danger in carrying infection from any such institution vrith the exception of a smallpox hospital, he failed to see why in a matter of «uch vital importance common tense -should; -not prevail, the exchange of a piece of land even more suitable ior recreation purposes guaranteeing an equal area of open space to the public. At t-he same time the present danger of allowing consumptives to live both in -the hospitals, their homes and boardinghouses vdthoiit having first learned the benefits of open-air _ existence and the ease _of preventing infection ought to ihave some ■weight"with those "who rightly from one point of view cried "Hands off zhe people's breathing spaces." He trusted that before April 15 the building would tie in course of construction. - lie -matter was deferred for further information. -— "*I