Health Facilities for Great Barrier Island

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 182, 4 August 1938, Page 6

Health Facilities for Great Barrier Island

POSITION NOT THOUGHT DISQUIETING Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. A thorough survey of health protection facilities on Great Barrier Island is to be made in the next seven days by two officers of the Department of Health at Auckland. An inspector and nurse left Auckland for the island by the steamer Kaw&u at midnight. The Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Hughes, stated that general information from tho district nurse on the island, Mrs. McLean, was not disquieting. An improvement in the position, noticeable a few days ago, had occurred. So far as tho Health Department was concerned, said Dr. Hughes, the position was that thero was no call for immediate action. However, it had been considered advisable to make a thorough survey of the position on the island in order to decide what should be done in future. The inspector, who left to-night, will conccntrato upon sanitation provisions in the Maori settlement at Kathcriue Bay. Ho was to be landed at Port Fitzroy. The nurse will make a genera/ survey of tho island vith the object of gainiDg first-hand information for the Department on the various difficulties facing the settlers from a health point of view, one of these being the diffi culty in getting from one part of tho island to another quickly.