CONSUMPTION.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 427, 9 February 1909, Page 7

CONSUMPTION.

■ ' CAMP LIFE AND TREE-PLANTING. WORK FOR'THE CURED AND PARTI* • s -, ALLY CURED. A SUCCESSFUL BEGINNING. Tho Hon. D. Buddo, Minister of Publio Hoalthj intends in .the course of a fow weeks to visit tho .Consumption , Sanatorium at ' "to Waikato," near Cambridge, also tho' Karoro camp for "cuied" consumptive patients, _noar Rotorua. Tho Minister is favourable to tho schemo of providing outdoor work in suitable localities for "cured" ex-pationta of consumption hospitals. It is probabio that his visit to the north will result m the Government making further provision for the outdoor employment of persous who nave suffered tiom tuberculosis. At present there are twelve expatients at tho-Karere. camp, and they are -employed at tree-planting and the lemoval of 6crub. The men are paid ordinary wages for. the work they do, by tho Lands Department. SomC-of tho men havo done very wc|l, and have improved so much in health that they, havo left the camp and taken up ordinary work in other districts. iMany advantages are claimed for the development of tho camp sjstom. It will relioye'the congestion of the consumption hospitals, will provide, healthy occupation for ■ ::. the; pured-and partially cured,- and will give :'";•''.many.: unfortunate:sufferers' a new start-in ,' : .'■_ '.-.:litf^ under the /most,' favourable; conditions. *-}■' '':. Hitherto ; .the patient wasin this : position:,:that ne,.found it almost' , impossible, to get work.- No one would give ■'•:'■■ ■■■" The/S'tatenow says: "\VV will f" iVe'you'ari opportunity of earning a livelib'pd:'':'iji: is - contended : that the; tree-planf> '■': ": : ing' camps • will be' a : profitable investment to: '. ' : " ■.the.-State.-.becauße'the 1 mennvill no longer be ■', i-" a'burdeti'on: the : country,. but,, will be able ■ '??■ in 'Sariyjpases: toikeep themselves,;while: areas ■. .-:• of iwhatjis now barren land will.give a profit--1' ab(e';yie|d !of, timber. 'Whon the hew system ' : h,as';.heen. a' little longer, in working order, wider, known, it is. ':*??.'■ large .■number's.: of 'iufferers ' ';■',] : from',tutibrcular;diseases;;will avail,themselves ihe':-Wportuntiy.) of in, outdcrdr. "■'f .i'w.ork'under.these conditions, instead of going. ';■' : '- ■ S baok '• •■ ti) w-their i■. old ; ;: indoor,: ■', employment,: ? ; - y ':':with ; ,if;s;i attendant;. dangerN-of a relapse,,: ;:;-; -employment.:is're-: ■ v.r ! 'garded aS; : one of : -th'e mbsi important features' ' : ';t.'-; ''fit itheiokrhpaign; agams^; tuberoulosis. ■■-•';. The> :,'".,:. : . jSaffp; atJKarere «is ;!in ; :,charg'e :.of - a-trainsd iha health,of. ; the .workers>is-afci , >/•'-,',:i'tendijd necessary by a : medical officer : .-■;! :Vr:'"of :'thb'ißeal^t.>Dcpar'tmeut. : :. \"; -. .■' ;; .V'.-'- .■'.' vi:.j v.;-:,/ autho'rifeti" contomplate l ;,':V;'t£cqnsumpjiion.rßanatoriumpn'ea r;;":? s ';; frtim-'Tiiparu.KjAVcpu^ '■•;';' ; .'-between!jthe' So'utbjOanterbury-arid .A'shbur- - • ■;■..'^ : held.at ,:^^STimaru^v^'-~J\Vii%^f'iS;' ;^>:':^^; -:^'_':^V ; 'j :'V : ;|sli -si^P^Ti^M H E I;''J>> : of,ex-patients, iii.-; tree-planting,: ;:^?li;the':tHbn;u.B.si'Buddp;: ; :Ministpr- : f6r'Publio' ■■ i^iiffi a- Dominion::-reporter: '.|;K'.!\.''-hirf".thbAa^fapproval;!of:'the:eyßtißih.-.';''-;'.''i , -v'"' : '- '.{,:;:,,;/:.■•■! l^;Every;r c.ity or : borgu'ffh:of,'anything like. '. 'tss remark<:d,.;.",has' -:. the'exception; I ;.';;■ of city -has now. this: eub-: •,t* ; Kject,;jin'der.cbn'sideration.v.; It.. is":'.■ genorally, •: :am:h6p6ful-^that' :; p:-:a .t:.':; : ■';. /.,'mako ' ; as; publio. as-possible. the:danger to "tho. ...--;.f>..publip,.piij having.- consumptive" .patients: Jiving: :■.'■;:; J.; "X'.The.; ;.},;-;•: : whole 'history:-" of , '■ jjulmonary-: ;cohsumption : .;;.}!■::; 6hpw"s ; ' that ■■ jnfect jpji-.-is- easily.' spread, through 1 ■: : ',-'■■ ; 'v»- fact, I :!",scarcely ■;: : :i^; consider,tube ■ftuiarmi 'qow<;3'free 'hand 'tdympressyupoh all local .^^autbdriti^ ary;:coniumptidii,':-a?:;th'ere';ife::rib"np ; •fc-T^'Sfiuest.ion' 1 ': bf,--inflicting ; / hardship fton* the"' 'poor '^ :pi)latftp; thertf being place tb ; :ijvf): »cbommoda'te?tnem;;/; As avjnatterof fact,-l : *«V: ; ha*e;krio:vrn:a-serious-arid-a'dvanced ; case hav-' : %^Wg:tb^bß,hoUscdnn>ari ; old:building, or-nTa': >'";:■ U'wnt^erected:,iri v a;'shelttred:pla;ce--there be- -(.•'.%; i'!!iiigi no'; ioenitalior bther*suitable accommoda-' ■•j:'^;':tiofl¥aTOilable^ : : ~V'] .■g^.'- , .;Thel'mairi'ip'oint,,in, c'onrieotiori--with'out- ■:.'.'■'■■ '■■ v :'opof;; : eiriplbyment -iof ; pa'.tients-i-either ■ conva-:^'';'S4escents^pr;.'.puj-pdi'-r-is!that such'-''cases''-'are ; : ';&;>: Bti 11 ;the;supervision of : the Health.De:paH;nMrit:t:As;a;.mattcr':of;faci,;the: whole bf ; " ?:'■% tn§;wofk ;dpne: afctlie. Cambridge: Sanatorium'■:^.■■■■^'^:■'.l βn 9■ ; ■!'™,■:^^!^pk"ntin■■g■■^ca^^p !, at ia in-' .--•• ■^■.■^'i™?-™?;'", B v*' general.; Experiment,: the, result ;.■ ~r.:;-;oi;:which'-,.-will; Bbr.communicated' , to .-all the ?:^o:fJb9alj-bbdies':in'rthe::Dominion'whicb, are { in-:;:i'-;ytereßfedyn;;the'iWprk,'and whioh'have sa'ria-iK-Ktoria" tfeatins.consumptivb .patients. I, •: iJS>-: may:.state:that; advices received there : ■'" - : \\'S' ; now:recognise;the advantage; indee'd -tlie--'rie- : ! U\- : ':v-?^'jfe./Ao r ': i «^ploy>n^'cpnTalea'cpnt-patierits ,: ~--v■••■v ■••■ ln.iiight: work ; :.iri tlio.'bpch air.'.and they are v ; :.^putting:the;/systemlintp;practice."':. ;■:;:' ■