COMMUNITY’S HEALTH MENACED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 343, 10 March 1922, Page 6

COMMUNITY’S HEALTH MENACED.

ALLEGATIONS TO HOSPITAL HOAR

Ij is a serious Male of affairs—a disgrac ■ I "> the administration,” remarked Air \\ j Murdoch (Shannon) at to-day’s meeting c j ln J: Palmerslon North Hosjiital Hoard, whe ''Herring to a, ease under review. Ii wa '" at ' a '"‘'"j who, although in an ad vanned stage of consumption/ was. he said allowed by the department to leave at iff is j 111 ,-i ( in Wellington, and rejoin his wifi | ami family (two children of lender years j and ill lour ol them were now living in ; •town under the jurisdiction of (he hoard I y ol ' a lime the whole family had slop; m one small room, and during (lie day I lime (he man was allowed to roam about j tbe streets and haunt public places to tin Mleimnenl of the health of the whole eon, niunity. ■ r J he matter had been reported to (he de- , part mem, hut; if had merely temporised with the complaint, and lo cap all had gone back on its oiler to provide the man with a lent m order that the health of his wife and children might be safeguarded. The department wasp he commented, wonderfully zealous when it came to scouring the connin' for rats, bid ii overlooked (he fad jhai, while the bubonic plague was not yet m Fie Dominion, another dread disease —the while plague—was in our midst. Yet to all appearances it remained inactive in the nia 11 er. I he board decided io provide the family, who are j,, very poor circumstances, with a bed in order Unit the father might sleep 111 ;i room in the house apart from his family.