TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26874, 29 October 1952, Page 7

TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION

MONTHLY MEETING OF EXECUTIVE

At the monthly meeting of the executive of the Tuberculosis Association yesterday, Dr. 1. C. Macintyre. medical superintendent of the Cashmere Sanatorium. reported that during a recent visit to Nelson he had. at the request of members, addressed the committee of the Nelson Rotary Club on forming an association in Nelson, and he had given a broadcast address on the same subject. He felt that those interested in the scheme in Nelson would prefer to form a branch of the South Island

(northern group) Association, which has its headquarters in Christchturch, rather than form a separate association. • The meeting decided to advise the Nelson committee that it would welcome Nelson as a branch of the association, and would afford it some financial help to inaugurate the branch. Seventeen applications for reljef had been received during the month, it was reported, and £65 had been spent for this purpose. It was decided to spend £l2O for gifts of food parcels for patients in the Cashmere Sanatorium and ihe families of some former patients. It was decided that a public appeal should be made soon to persons willing to give board and lodging to patients who had discharged from the sanatorium.

Miss Joan Edgar, who has directed the art therapy at the sanatorium for several months with marked success, will relinquish her position at the end of the year, as she is taking a full-time position in the city. She has undertaken to obtain a successor to carry on the work at the sanatorium, and said she hoped to gain the co-operation of some artists who would be willing to give a little advice and instruction to some of her pupils who had been, or would • soon be. discharged from the sanatorium and who had shown remarkable promise. Members spoke appreciatively of Miss Edgar’s work at the sanatorium, and expressed regret at losing her services.

A donation of £l5 was gratefully received from the McDougall Trust fund. The president (Dr. W. Gordon Rich) presided at the meeting.