MAJOR OR MINOR?

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 33, 9 February 1928, Page 8

MAJOR OR MINOR?

REMOVAL OF TOlSlls,

IMPORTANCE DT

CASE or A BACEBLOdtScg^

CB.r Telesra pb. Own HAMILTON, tia More trouble has arisen b with Tc Kuiti Hospital, -RMdTSI? the centre of controvert m, was crecied. a fi

The Waikato Board detidfi! — to subsidise three doctorsl£S* Te kuiti to the extent of it? 1 * annum if ihey would perforagj* the local hospital, so u l 0 - patient? to be treated for tff ** as at the base hospitaL ** superintendent of the tal, Dr. G. W. Gowcr, was in***!-?"' 1" draw- up a schedule of dutkf*^ to the case of a woman livinJ^ eati * the back blocks who took Te Kuiti Hospital, one *j fadenoids and the other tonsik r~Z? A doctor told her he could the operations at the hospitaLß? would do so if the case/^ I**1** prnate ones. The onlv altenuJH?/ paying fees for the £ send the children all the vzr te** kato Hospital i n Hamilton. Mr. Smythe said this matter great importance to settlers back blocks, and he demanded tion regaramg the schedule of 25" | under which the local doctors . The removal of tonsils, he sail if surely a very rai» 3r operatim j should be undertaken at Te Kuiti

Dr. Gower doctors differed M 4. the imjx)rtance of the tonsils Some regarded it a s a minor as a major operation. In joaw complications followed. M d i, y recommended, in the patients' o*a ate est*, that the operation be perioral the base hospital Mr. Blackman (Tc KnitH, in !"S *?[• Sni - Vlne ' "Passed the that the present system was aot ■>». factorv.

Dr. Gower and Mr. Blackmta Lt H inquire into the matter.