THE CONSUMPTION CAMPS

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 14310, 2 March 1907, Page 8

THE CONSUMPTION CAMPS

It was hardly necessary for Airs Maude to explain that she took no responsibility for the expenditure of the substantial sum of money which she and her fellow-workers collected last winter for the maintenance of the consumption camps. That was made quite clear at the time, and the public will not readily forgot the zeal and; ability ■with which our correspondent organised the great children's bazaar. But the committee which has control of the camps, if there is such a committee, certainly owes some explanation to the subscribers. Mrs Maude says that her appeal was made on. behalf of the two camps, the men’s and the women’s, and no doubt many of the subscribers were induced to assist <by the desire that the women patients should bo placed in at least- as good a position as the men patients; but now wo are casually told that it is intended to close up tho women’s camp altogether because it is badly situated: and because the funds of the committee are nearly exhausted. Wo had never understood that the camps were costing £llOO or £I2OO a year, iu addition to the donations that were coming in from time to time, and. we think that the committee may be fairly asked for an account of the expenditure of the money. The committee’s very invidious treatment of its medical officers is another matter, but we are not- surprised f that some of our correspondents are indignant at the scant courtesy with which Dr Greenwood’s services have been requited. The doctor belongs to a profession which renders many services to the public without looking for any kind of recognition, but in hia case these cheerful

sacrifices seem to have been rewarded by less than .ordinary civility.