TREATMENT OF T.B.

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1910, 22 May 1928, Page 3

TREATMENT OF T.B.

MIX IST KICK .STATEMENT THREE EXPERTS TO INQUIRE (for Fresa Association) Audita ml., May 21 “That is a totally incorrect view,'' said the Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Health, m referring to a statement attributed to Dr. JRlaekmore, -director ol tuberculosis in stitutjons in North Canterbury, that the Health Department was appointing a commission to try to discredit the work tlial had been, done and was! being done in the South Island, lie would weloomc the co-npera.ti m of Dr. .131 nek mo re in any work, done to help sufferers. He-had appointed three physicians of outstanding ability to act as a committee of inquire after consulting tlm executive of the R.M.A. in order that physicians of requisite standing might he selected. Not, onlv would the committee visit the four main centres, hut the phvsi dans would inspect all the* sanatoria in the Dominion where T.B. patients are cared for. The committee ha I lieen appointed to investig.ue thoroughly the*' sufficiency and adequacy of accommodation and the methods cm ployed throughout the Dominion for the comfort and treatment of sufferers.