HEALTH MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 88, 13 April 1923, Page 8

HEALTH MATTERS

EEPORTS BY MEDICAL MEN. (II TILEiBAPH.— PREU AI!«CIATI»K.) DUNEDIN, This Day. The North Canterbury Hospital Board's proposals for the sterilisation of epileptics and sexual degenerates is' the subject of a report to the Otago Board by Dr. Falconer, Medical Superintendent, who expresses approval of the principle, but states that the subject should be carefully considered by the New Zealand Heaelth Board before legislation is passed. He also recommends.that the' Health Board should go into the question of treatment and accommodation of incipient, mental cases raised by Patea. \ . -: ' In a lengthy, report by Dr. Lyth, on a letter from, the South Canterbury Board regarding, compulsory '.detention of curable cases'of consumption, hospital accommodation for incurables, and improving the milk supply, Dr. Lyth considers treatment in the first case should be in the direction of assistance rathei than compulsion. He urges that no milking cow should be untested for tuberculosis. He reports that the first proposal is impracticable, and recommends the board's support for the other two. Dr. , Falconer generally agrees, pointing out that the Department has, power to order . highly infectious cases into an institution. ■ . j