CONSUMPTION CRUSADE.
SYDNEY. June 12. A deputation representing the National Association for the Prevention and Cure iof Consumption waited on Mr. Flowers (Acting-Chief Secretary) to-day, and asked him to introduce a bill to make the notification of cases of consumption compulsory, to give a grant of £2000 in aid of the establishment of anti-tubercular dispensaries, and the dissemination of information relating to the disease. Mr. Flowers said that he was perfectly in agreement with the deputation in the desire ,to take all precautions to protect healthy lives from contamination, but he was not convinced on the question of compulsory notification. He did not think that the State w-ould be justified in practically ostracising whole families, or causing additional suffering to the consumptives themselves. He favoured every precaution short of what he considered to be the refinement of cruelty, but he was not in favour of general notification, though it might be the means of stamping out the disease of years.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 139, 13 June 1911, Page 5
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