WHITE SCOURGE.
TREATMENT OF T.B. CASES.
(Press Association.)
; , ASHBURTON, Feb. Id. The hospital board adopted a comrnittee's report advocating that provision be made the 'State for the proper inspection of homes of T.B. people and. pensions for the dependents of those necessitous cases vvno have to- enter institutions for T.B. treatment; 1 that the law should be amended to make all cases and types of T.B. notifiable; that tlie State should take up the question of the control and treatment of incorrigible cases; that the law should be "amended to compel each hospital board to take up what the department rejVafds as its proper share of responsibility for the treatment of T.B.
The report also stated that the board is heartily in accord with any national scheme which, while dealing with the question .of treatment, also deals-.with contributory causes in an effective ihannep, but Considers the mere combining of existing institutions'is a very inadequate method of dealing with-tin/problem, with the addition that the law should provide for’compensation in fair market value of cow's destroyed. The report was adopted for a remit to the tfospitril ’ Boards’ Association.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10510, 14 February 1928, Page 3
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