FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 34, 10 February 1939, Page 14

FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS.

■' ' —•—— .—. ; NATIONAL COUNCIL URGED. i ': "" ' ■ . s (From- Our Correspondent.) . | - NEW PLYMOUTH, Thursday. ' The necessity for immediate:: action on the part of tlie Government to create a national council against tulicrculosis was urged "at tlie final session of tlie Dominion conference of tlie Hospital ; Boards' Association of Now ■ Zealand at ' Aew Plymouth to-day. Mr'.' J. A. Nnsli, of Palmerston North, moved in that direction,, suggesting that such council be associated with the Department of Health and consist of representatives of the Department, practitioners who arc specialists in the treatment of the disease, and hospital boards which' control sanatoria. ;.< '. ' "The resolution further urged tliat the council .should at an early date formulate,' especially as regards the .North Island," a, scheme for the treatment of 'tuberculosis,. and should especially investigate the necessity; for tion being provided, either;by, individual hospital lroanls or by groups of boards, •for"'thV better control and supervision of .cases j>f chronic ;tul)e.rciilosis.in special hospitals.-and, colonies. . .■...';