TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 July 1928, Page 6

TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS

CRITICISM OF COMMITTEE’S REPORT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, July 29. Dr. islac.vmore, director of- tubercu.osis institutions under the Canterbury * Hospital board, finds some fault with the Tucercolisis Commission’s report. ■He defends the use of tuberculin treatment anti says he -has been using the treatment for 35 years. He knows no authority who has mastered the technique of the treatment who does not believe in its efficiency. In his opinion although tuberculin is not a- cure of consumption, it has marked, effect on « the disease and has a profund influence in helping to prevent relapse. He is satisfied with the recommendations as to the provision of more beds at Cashmere Sanatorium as that was his own recommendation years ago, the attitude of the Health Department having been always that more accommodation was not required. Dr. ’ Blackmore does not believe in the proposed central control by officers of the- Health Department, preferring the present organisation, which, being representative bodies, helps to keep alive the public interest in the tuberculosis danger. He questions -the ‘ advisability and efficiency of home treatment of tuberculosis as suggested, and urges that sanatorium treatment is preferable from every point of view.