How to Avoid Stomach Troubles.

Evening Post, Volume LXVI, Issue 55, 2 September 1903, Page 2

How to Avoid Stomach Troubles.

A disordered stomach may cause no end of trouble. When the stomach fails to perform its functions, the bowels become deranged, the liver and kidneys congested, causing numerous diseases, the most fatal of which aie painlfcss and therefore the more to be dreaded. The important thing is to restore the stomach and liver to a healthy condition, aiid for this purpose no better preparation can be used than Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets, gold exuxxxhvuK. >>6d.

Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedm, or the Workers' Unions, as the case may require, to recommend the name of some person to act as a deputy, and from these names the President ahall make a selection and recommend him to the- Governor for appointment. This was agreed to, and on the Premier' motion a new clause vras rdded providing for the appointment of deputy members of the Court at the same time as the Court proper is eleeffed The Bill was reported with amendments, which were agreed to, and the Bill was then put through final stages. SUPREME COURT JUDGES. The Supreme Court Judges Bill, providing for the retirement of Judges at the age of 72 years, was p,ut through Committee and its final stages. THE ESTIMATES. At 7.45 p.m. the House went into Committee of Supply for further consideration of the Estimates. CIVIL SERVICE BOARD. The first class taken was that of the Public Health Department, total vote £21,444. Mr. Thomas Mackenzie moved a reduction of the first iteni by £1 as an indication that the Government should eet up a Board to deal with all appointments to the Civil Service. This was negatived by 29 votes to 25. HEALTH MATTERS— VACCINATION. Mr. James Allen complained of the laxity of the Department in attending to the health of the Maori race. Mr. Laurenson, referring to voto of £2500 for vaccination, said the Public Health Act 1900, allowed parents who had conscientious objections to the vaccination of their children to obtain exemption by a declaration, but some of the Magistrates and Registrars were now asking the production of a medical certificate to prove conscientious objections. Who, he asked, ever heard of Buch a thing? The Minister for Public Health said in consequence of the appointment of Dr. Pomaie and two Inspectors it was recognised that the sanitary condition of the Maoris had very much improved of late. In regard to vaccination, no instructions in contravention of the law had been given by the Health Department. This was the first complaint he had heard as to the matter raised by Mr. Laurenson, and no instructions had been given to Magistrates or legistrars to act in the way complained of. Mr. Barber wanted to know if the Department was going to erect infectious diseases hospitals at all in the four centres. Mr. Duthie pointed out thjit the vote for the Public Health Department had greatly increased of late, and during the past three years there had oeen spent on the Department out, of the Consolidated Fund and' loan money £44,284. He thought that was going too far. Then again, there was too much power placed in the hands of the Chief Health Officer. This year there was a vote for sixteen Sanitary Inspectors, at a cost of £2380 ; last year the vote was only £1200. What was the. reason of the increase? There was also continual trquble, whicli could be avoided, in regard to the detention of vessels, and the examination was very perfunctory at the best., Mr. Hogg referred to the charge of 10s per head that is levied to cover medical inspection fees on every man, woman, and child who comes from Australia. The Port Health Officers, he said, were thus receiving large sums in addition to their salaries. Ho thought this was unjust, and also prevented desirable immigrants from coming to the colony. * The Minister, replying to these and othei* criticisms, said that before this Department was established large sums were charged for the same work sunder other heads. Salaries were distributed among various departments, and the real increase in expenditure was only £9000, for which the colony had received great benefit. The local bodies formerly used to pay for the Sanitary Inspectors, and he thought they still ought to do so, but as they did not, that expense fell on the Department. As to Mr. Hogg's complaint, the Port' Health Officers had always been paid by the colony, and the 10m a head referred to was made by the shipping companies — not by the colony at all. He urged that the brief delay caused by inspection was less burdensome than quarantining. No charge was made by the Port Health Officers or the Public Health Department against the passengers. Mr. Taylor wanted to know whether the large item (£2500) for vaccination, was an indication that the Government was going to drift into a policy of fforce in regard to vaccination. The Minister: There is no force about it. Mr. Taylor : There was a little force about it this year. Certain Government employees wera forced to be vaccinated, or go into quarantine. Mr. Lewis said the contributions to be made by local bodies in regard to public health matters, at the dictation of the Department, bad very greatly increased during the past year or two. In his district last year they increased by 20 per cent. Mr. Laurenson said the charge of 10s a head on passengers was felt to be very oppressive, and he instanced a case in which a poor woman who was unable to pay it for herself and family, had the return half of her ticket detained until she could find the money. The Minister, replying to some remarks by Mr. Bollard, said that the cost of the infectious diseases hospital at Auckland would be £7000 (not £14,000 as had been alleged), and the Government would pay half the cost. What had occurred at Auckland in connection with this hospital made one think that there was not sufficient recognition of the necessity of providing this hospital without delay. Mr. Wilford said there was no doubt that the Treasury had been greatly depleted through the large sums «f money that had to bo given to local bodies for carrying out the duties that had been cast upon them since tne coming into operation of the Public Health Act. He thought, however, that the money Mas well expended in the pursuit of the health of the colony. Ho declared that when passengers for New Zealand from Australia took their tickets they were charged 10a to cover, as the companies said, the,- cost of inspection in New Zealand, and they were told that it was imposed by the New Zealand Government. Mr. Willis moved to reduce the vote of £525 for the Assistant Chief Health Officer by way of protest against that officer having only been given an increase of £25. The motion was lost on the voices. Mr. Wilford moved to reduce the item, vaccination, £2500, by £1 as an indication that an absolutely free hand should be given to the public in regard to vaccination, and as an indication to the Government that an amendment is required in the Public Health Act in that direction. The amendment was not debated, and was negatived on a division by 41 votes to 13.