TUBERCULOSIS.
CONFERENCE AT SYDNEY! 3y Toloeraph--Press Associalion-Conydßht Sydney, March 4. At the Inter-Stato Conference on Tuberculosis, resolutions were passed to tlie ; effect that it was considered desirable Hint, sanatoria bo established, and that a largo proportion of consumptives be admitted thereto for a period for instruc-' tion and training in the way of precautions to be taken. The admittance of consumptives to the. Kencral wards of hospitals and prisons was deprecated. It was held that separate accommodation should be provided for them. The conference also considered that the State Governments should attend to' the housing and maintenance of the wives and families of necessitous consumptives. (Rcc. March G, '0.20 a.m.) Melbourne, March 5. The consumption conference discussed the questions of bovine tuberculosis, and recommended that the Agricultural Departments be granted legal power to deal with it. The conference also recommended that rooms previously occupied by consumptives be disinfected by Government officials.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1068, 6 March 1911, Page 5
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