CARING FOR CONSUMPTIVES.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 282, 27 November 1919, Page 13

CARING FOR CONSUMPTIVES.

HOUSING SOLDIER PATIENTS. SHELTERS AT THE ANNEXE. A recent development in the treatment of soldiers suffering from tuberculosis has been tie construction of a numoer of shelters in proximity to the Annexe at tbe Domain. These buildings are to be used in the accommodation of those men who are suffering from the disease in the more advanced stages, and their use is confined more or less to the mea of the Auckland district. " The new departure is evidently in accordance with the statement by the Minister of Defence, Sir James Allen, when interviewed by _ deputation in Auckland in June last. On that occasion tire G«^ram.,n"'Mrcl'*^S^~Me5 I 'a^J < i ~rJS*v •; !' ii i i: :u ii EfliJOiHimiciiD mm nica mij iriTiffHiSllil medical officii- it *cr_us considered rli-*T, •accommodate them "in buildl-n^^anH'n-n" ney.es io hosspitals. where they would be mlliin easy access of Itheir fcitli and km. By confining accommodation at the rwelve shelters now Hearing completion, to men whose relations reside in the Auckland district, the latter contingency will be given effect to, and it is considered that this practice will he put into operation at the various hospitals throughout the Dominion. Every consideration had been given in the construction of the shelters to ameliorate the sufferings of the afflicted. They will be comfortably fitted, and every -facility possible provided for the comfort of the inmates. Each of these littie homes will be reversible, so as te take advantage oi the restorative properties of nature Adjacent to the group of huts special culinary establishments have been erected, while medical attention will a l=o be separately administered Shorta-e of labour has,led to a delay in the completion of the shelter, and Colonel K. Murray, O.C. of the H»_?L.T B %& t " d ttat the men would not be housed there until everything was in preparation for them. Tbk stAtZrt affairs however, he considered wit onh a matter of dats. nl^