WORK FOR CONSUMPTIVES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 25 April 1913, Page 7

WORK FOR CONSUMPTIVES

AUCKLAND, April 24. An interesting point in the evidence given before the Forestry Commission was a suggestion made by Dr Makgill regarding the suitability of tree-plant-ang as work for convalescent consumptives. Dr Makgill said that in 1908 a trial of the system had been made in a small way eight miles from Rotorua. A camp of 14 men carried on work with reasonable success. Tree-planting was work suitable for consumptives but the trial was given up in the middle of 1910 as the walk to and from the plantation became rather long for semi-invalids. Dr Makgill said that he thought it •would be quite possible to establish' a camp of sixty men in the Taupo dwrict to undertake such work. It was very difficult to induce consumptives in sana--toria to work, and it was in many cases wetter for the patient's treatment to persuade him to work from the first Dr Makgill said that on any of the light pumice lands, there was an opportunity •of starting tree-planting.;