A CONSUMPTIVE'S SAD PLIGHT

Evening Star, Issue 15137, 19 March 1913, Page 7

A CONSUMPTIVE'S SAD PLIGHT

*—— A distressing case came before the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board yesterday. A consumptive patient wrote asking for work, or, if necessary, further sanatorium treatment. He said he was 25 years of age, his wife 25, and his son two. He had had about 10 months' hospital and sanatorium treatment ,and derived considerable benefit. He was discharged from the Otaki Sanatorium on September 11, and had had no settled work since. 1 hough friends had interested themselves in his behalf, they were unsuccessful in getting work for him. He feared that tuberculosis was getting the upper hand again m his case. His wife had been operated on for an internal trouble, and had been found to be tuberculous, while trie child had been weakly all its life, the man said he was endeavoring to place ttie child, which seemed now to have taken a turn for the better, in a home, where' he would have a chance-to grow strong and healthy, which lie could not do so lon * as he remained with two persons who were more or less tuberculous subjects. The man asked for a chance to work in healthv surroundings, in order that ho might maintain his family decently. "I really b>heve," he added, " that some people wou'd as soon employ a. leper «js a consumptive." In© secretary of the board had repli >u vvj Sn ° m colon i e s were v:i. established, assistance cotdd not be given It was decided to communicate wivi the Prune Health Department to see if the man could be admitted to the Cambridge Sanatorium and some arrangement made to assist his wife and child. A constable in t.ba _c t..- i..±_ I