T.B. IN DOMINION
"REALLY GRAVE PROBLEM"
NEED FOR STEADY WORK (P.A.) WELLINGTON, this day. "The position does not give cause for alarm, but it definitely shows the need for steady and continuous work to reduce this really grave problem," said Dr. Hubert Smith, Medical Officer of Health, Wellington, in commenting on the Dominion figures of 271 new cases of tuberculosis notified so far this year, with 83 deaths. The figures were about what the Department had been getting since notification of all forms of T.B. was instituted about 18 months ago, added Dr. Smith. T.B. represented the largest proportion of notifiable diseases. Early detection of cases of prompt • treatment were most important in helping to check T. 8., which was far the worst of the notifiable diseases in New Zealand at present.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 42, 19 February 1943, Page 4
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