T.B. Prevention

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 159, 8 July 1938, Page 6

T.B. Prevention

CONFERENCE DISCUSSES SANATORIUM FACILITIES From Our Own Correspondent. WAIPTTKTTRAU, July 7. Matters relating to sanatorium facilities and tuberculosis preventive measures generally were discussed at the half-yearly meeting yesterday of the joint committee representing the boards in control of the North Island Sanatoria. The meeting was held at the Pukeora Sanatorium, Waipukurau. There were present Messrs. J. A. Nash, D. Collins, F. G. Ryder, W. Howell and C. Jensen (members of the Palmerston North Sanatorium Committee) and Messrs. W. H. Rathbone, N. G. Hawthorn, D. W. Neild and T. P. Hunter (members of the Waipawa board’s sanatorium committee). Also in attendance were Drs. R. Francis, medical superintendant of Otaki Sanatorium, and J. K. O’Dea, acting-medical superintendent at Pukeora Sanatorium, and Messrs. A. J. Phillips, managing secretary of the Palmerston North Board, and P. R. Smyrk, managing secretary of the Waipawa Hospital Board. Apologies were received from Dr. M. H. Watt, Director-General of Health, and Dr. R. A. Shore, Director of the Division of Hospitals, and also Mr. D. Eddy, of the Waipawa Board. -Mr. Rathbone, chairman of the Waipawa Hospital Board, took the chair.

A number of matters were dealt with in committee, the meeting being a fairly lengthy one. In open meeting the following resolution was unanimously carried: —“That this meeting is of the opinion that the controlling boards of the North Island sanatoria should take joint action to present their case to the Tuberculosis Commission set up by the Government, and that the medical superintendents and managing secretaries of the two boards should confer as early as possible to prepare statements and forward them to their respective ooards for consideration. The next meeting of the combined committee vill be held at the Otaki Sanatorium luring October.