CONSUMPTION CURE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 82, 7 April 1913, Page 9

CONSUMPTION CURE.

AND CONFERENCE PROPOSALS. (By Correspondent.) thifl day. Apparently the Government is not yet ready to put into practice the reeom- j mo.iidations oj a conference called by the Public Health Department to devise means of curing consumption. When I the. Minister of Health (Hon. j K. H. Rhodes) was questioned on this point by your correspondent, he fiaic i the delay was not due -to the adoption j of a waiting policy over tlio Friedmann i cure. The Government was still_ trying to, get the vaccine which had been. r>S- j ported to have worked wondens, but it r iv-as not available. ] As for present methods of treatment, i in New Zealand, the Minister, speaking front personal knowledge of hospital j work iv Cantca-bury, said tlio great j difliculty in many placet? woa that there I was nat enough land to utilise consurop- j kive patiente in light work and keep all i 'cliiisscs under tho control of ono mcdicn-i | ! fiiiporintendent in Uμ? same institution.. j The milk supply is an important factor ; lin cheeking the spread of the dieeaeo. and on this point the Minister belieVO' Iα jrood deal can be done by mnnieipalisa- ■ lion. More power has been given the ■ Health Department in controlling the purity of milk, and the new regulations will bo duly carried out, though the Department will not inflict hardship on I suppliers by lack of due warning. • CONSUMPTIVE IMMIGRANTS. "It is difficult to harden one's heart to keep them out altogether," replied ■ tho Minister, when I raised the point; of taking greater precautions regarding ,' the admission of consumptives from abroad. "What we would like to do ,! would be to have a better method of in- .' spection in England." "But is thore not a system of inspection?" I asked. "Yes, \ve have some inspection; but

la. healthy man might impersonate a consumptive, and it is difficult to altogether got over that nt present," replied -the Minister.