CAMBRIDGE SANATORIUM.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 964, 3 November 1910, Page 2

CAMBRIDGE SANATORIUM.

THE HON. D. BUDDO REPLIES TO : ; CRITICISM. Some severe criticism was passed upon the management of tho Waikato Sanatorium' at a meeting of tho Cambridge Borough Council last week. Mr. Tudehope, who criticised the institution on the. score of its expensiveness, stated that there was a staff of over thirty :but only thirteen patients, i These remarks rwere brought under tho notice of the Minister for Public ■Health;-(the Hon. D. Buddo) by a Dominion representative. Mr. Buddo expressed surpriso at the statement, tho accuracy of which ho challenged. At no time, he stated, were thero less than twenty pationts in the sanatorium, and at times the number ranged up te the neighbourhood of fifty or sixty. There was, accommodation for sixty, and not long ago there was within four or five of that number of patients. General satisfaction had been expressed by patients at the attention they received and their progress in the institution. Curative treatment must necessarily bo generous, and this institution was utilised for curative and educational treatment. Last year's result of 34 per cent of arrested diseases and;about an equal number of cases showing improvement proved tho value of the treatment. Mr. Buddo contended th/at the criticism passed by the. Borough Council was quite uncalled for.