CONSUMPTIVE SOLDIERS.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 69, 21 March 1919, Page 7

CONSUMPTIVE SOLDIERS.

INADEQUATE PROVISION". (By Xelccraph. —Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH. this day. At a meeting of the South Canterbury Hospital Board yesterday discussion took place on the failure of the Government to make adequate provision for consumptive soldiers. Dr. Talbot said soldiers were being sent out of institutions in a way which occasioned a danger to the community One such soldier was sent to Timaru from Te Waikato Sanatorium, and he (Dr. Tnlb-it) wrote to the officers in charge at Te Waikato to ask whether this soldier wa-*: considered free from infection. He received a reply stating that the soldier was not considered Tree from infection, but that he should not be a danger to the community if he paid attention to the instructions given to him. This soldier had been living with a family in Timaru where there were three children. He could mention two or three other somewhat similar cases. If the Government could not cure a man they should keep him in an institution for incurables.

The following motion was carried unanimously: "That in the opinion of this board, tlie action of the Government in regard to the treatment of returned soldiers by the Defence Department, as shown by the Health Department's failure to provide sufficient aud suitable sanatoria, can only be deplored as a miserable fiasco."