Health Regulations

Press, Volume C, Issue 29623, 20 September 1961, Page 8

Health Regulations

Sir,—On Saturday my daughter-in-law was flying from Blenheim to Christchurch with three young children, one a baby of six months. She had to catch the 10 o’clock bus' at Picton to report at the N.A.C. depot at Blenheim at 12.30 and then was told the plane would be two hours late; so later the baby drank her other bottle of milk Later she was told the plane would be delayed another hour, and as it was a cold, wet day we went to a milk /bar to have tea and asked the proprietor if we could have the baby’s bottle filled with warm milk or boiled water. He said the Health Regulations forbade him to help us and he was not going to stick his neck out for anybody. Surely there is no law so inhuman as to stop a baby having milk in these circumstances?— Yours, etc., DISGUSTED. September 12, 1961. [The Medical Officer of Health at Nelson (Dr. J. Q, Roxburgh) replies that the milk bar proprietor was quite wrong. “There are no regulations to prevent him obl.ging the lady; it sounds like .another case of a person making u.p some ‘Heakn D;partment regulations’ as an excuse for something he could not, would not, or was too lazy to do,” Dr. Roxburgh says.l