TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28701, 26 September 1958, Page 7

TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION

Monthly Meeting Of Executive Twenty-five appeals for relief * various kinds were considered at the monthly meeting of the executive of the- ‘Canterbury-West Coast Tuberculosis Association, and in nearly all cases the requests from former patients of the sanatorium, and present patients and their dependants were granted. Specimens of this year’s Christmas seals were displayed at the meeting and it was announced that they would be on sale very soon. Circular letters were being sent to many city and * country residents, asking for support for the seals campaign. It was reported that the association’s cottage at Arthur’s Pass, which is available for former patients of the Cashmere Sanatorium and their families free of charge, was in good order and a few minor amenities, it was decided, should be installed

It was reported to the meeting that two new associations had been formed recently—at Ashburton and at Palmerston North. A letter from the Auckland association announced that its association was inviting to New Zealand in March, next, an eminent chest physician and tuberculosis expert from San Francisco, Dr. H. Corwin Hinshaw. It was hoped he would lecture to a post-graduate course of doctors in Auckland and possibly in other main centres. Dr. Hinshaw was a fellow and first assistant in medicine at the Mayo foundation, University of Mayo, from 1933 to 1935, an assistant professor of the foundation from 1937 to 1946, and associate professor from 1946 to 1949. In that year he was appointed clinical professor of medicine and head of the division of chest diseases at Stanford University Medical School. Later, Dr. Hinshaw was president of the American National Tuberculosis Association and was the first physician in the United States to use streptomycin for the treatment of tuberculosis.