SOLDIERS IN SANATORIA

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 13 December 1920, Page 4

SOLDIERS IN SANATORIA

In addition to the call for support for the Red Cross Society in its splendid work of providing comforts for soldiers in hospital, people should remember i especially those cases which are prob-ably-the saddest of all —the T.B. Sanatoria patients. There is no disease which calls for7 greater human sympathy than tuberculosis. The patient is often the victim of a steadily progressive decline;. though living his powers are slowly passing from him and the terrible disease gradually advances, wearing out the organs until death releases the victim. Yet.throughout the period of the disuse the sufferer really believes that he will recover, and moreover he hates to be regarded as a sick person, though to observers his condition daily manifests itself more plainly. We have a special duty to such victims who contracted T.B. through their war service, and who are inmates of those sad sanatoria, and after all it is not very much, to ask that the people should contribute something towards making Christmas brighter for these patients. We hope that the appeal made on their behalf by Mr Burdekin will be responded to generously. People who enjoy good health can hardly realise the sadness of the fact that there are several hundred men stricken by the terrible T. 8.; and that there is little enough to make life happy in. the sanatoria hidden away in thinly vpopulated parts of the country, but .where climatic conditions are most suitable for treatment of the disease. Stibscriptions may be forwarded to Mr Burdekin,