TRAINING FARMS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 137, 12 June 1922, Page 2

TRAINING FARMS.

I TUBERCULAR TREATMENT. RICI'LY Tt) THE OiUXISTKK. DDKS XOT RE.VUSK TRAGKDY. Rofercnci , iviis niaili' -by Dr. Hermtein !in the course of liU address at tliu Ailt-k- ---■ land llolary Club to-ituy on tiflM-n-iiJusis Ito trainiuj; 'furin treatment, ami recent 'eommi-m liy the Minister of I'liblu , I Health in that i-'Mimrtion. I -The Minister is reported as having remarked how strange it is that sorrn , .days the i-onsiiufptive is al.le to work many lioiii-h ami (!'<■ next day is m>t al'le to work :il nil.' - lu> Miid. "lie attributes this to tin- •peculiar temperament <>l' 1 1'« consumptive soldier.' Ho dues not realise the tragedy that i> takinir place. It i> not tin* temperament that is pe.ulir.r. i'bilt it is the treatment that is wrong. |The jrreat exertion before the |iatient w ; ready liberates more poison llian he can 'destroy, lie (lien feels ill and has to j rest n fen , days to overcome the. poieoniiij; jin his system. The only result of thH haphazard treatment is that the patient Kofi downhill. The whole success of the I treatment depends upon the constant jSMipppvitsion of the patient iiy an expert who kn .«s liow to in.-rea.-e prailliallv the pal ienfs resistance. A steady imjprovement then is the result. We iniist I realise at once that a proper sanatorium jit. a place rim 4iy a man. I "It, does not depend upon elaborate fhuildimzs or appliances, nor upon i pnlitifn," ho i-.imlirdcd. "A sanatorium I should nut In- an expensive place. The ■more eflieiently it is r ,,n the more economically. A sanatorium superintendent must have adniini.-t rative experience as well as special knowledge ot |lhe treatment. A few months' training iPiinnot, make su.-li a man. If tile money that is waste.l in playim,' with the disease «ere spent properly nineli pood conld lie done. Only an expert can llmndlc the matter." I The president (Mr. C. Rhodes), said I Hot arians were indebted to Dr. Tipnjhtein for his instruct ivp addresw. ITe liad liari many years experience in Government sanitoria in treating the disease, and was fully qualified to speak upon it. 7f Hie business community cnuld do anvtlmig lei assist the work of inVlitinp Ui in ravage, they would he ;l jrreat social work of benefit to the whole Dominion.