STUDY OF HEALTH SERVICES

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27089, 11 July 1953, Page 6

STUDY OF HEALTH SERVICES

Tasmanian Minister Visiting N.Z. TUBERCULOSIS C AMrita! DESCRIBED (New Zealand Press WELLINGTON, Tlie Tasmanian Minister of (Dr. R. J. A. Turnbull) Wellington today in the Monarch. He wiH spend a in the Dominion to study New Zealand’s health special emphasis on dental is accompanied by Mrs TurabulL . The New Zealand Minister (Mr J- R. Marshall) weicomM./*Turn bull on his arrival. w -_ Dr. Turnbull, who has been ister of Health since l c 4B. still on an extensive practice m “Politics is an uncertain he said. “Nowadays. I mainly iipp" ise in skin diseases.” . . He said Tasmania had mendous strides in the war tuberculosis since compulsory, examinations had been death rate was now 15 in every ' sufferers, but before the I examinations had been introduces rate had been 74 in every Tasmania had made so ■ gress towards eliminating that there was now an abunittß*, hospital beds, he said, and it WJL rarely that people had to w® ll I any time to get a bed. I Dr. Turnbull said two ; tion clinics had recently been by the Tasmanian Governmentwere the first of their kina m tralia. The Tasmanian I was also launching a drive " • cancer. The principle was to prevail on sufferers to have while the disease was in it® stages. - 1 Dr. Turnbull is a ski-ing entjMJg i and has brought a pair tn 7°' j-? , him. He hopes to spend a l at Queenstown. He will be I panied on his tour bv Dr. L. of the Department of Health. mJaui IJ. S. Cumpston. from the ■ High Commissioner’s