TREATMENT OF T.B. CASES.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 258, 31 October 1929, Page 8

TREATMENT OF T.B. CASES.

BOARDS TO SHARE COST.

NORTH CANTERBURY SCHEME.

(By Telegrapu.-owa Correspondent) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday: Plans for the amalgamation of hos. pHal boards-iii the South Island t d tricts north of the Rakaia River for the treatment •of tuberculosis cases We approved to-day by delegates of tie boards interested who conference in Chr stchurch. The delegates ™H1 report to. their respective boards and if the scheme is accepted several boards will share in the cost of interest charces and maintenance.of the Cashmere Sanatoria and the people in their district will be given equal chances of treatment with people in North Canterbury The North Canterbury: Board will" retain control of the institution, which remains its own property, but dispenses will be established in the districts ot the other boards interested at the expense of those boards and tuberculosis experts from North Canterbury will pay regular visits to these dispensaries for the examination of cases at the expense ot the boards whose districts they visit Delegates to-day expressed agreement with, and great pleasure at, the action of the North' Canterbury Board in formulating the scheme.