Taranaki's Mobile X-Ray Unit For Diagnosis Of T.B.
TPer Press Association. —Copvrightl NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. “This is an augury for a new and improved system of control that jnay set an example for New Zealand, ’ remarked the Director-General for Health (Dr. M. H. Watt), when a conference of representatives of hospital boards of Taranaki, meeting at Stratford, approved of the principle of a mobile unit for X-ray diagnosis of tuberculosis. A sub-committee was appointed to formulate a detailed scheme for the establishment and running of such a unit and the subsequent treatment of patients. The committee will also confer with the Maori Trust Board in view of the Maori proposal to contribute towards the cost of a unit and the fact that there is a greater incidence of the disease among Maoris than Europeans. To People’s Homes The idea of the mobile unit is that it should be equipped with the latest development in X-ray photography, a miniature plant that makes mass examinations possible at a reasonable price, and, being mobile, it may be taken to the people’s homes, enabling examinatiorts to be made under conditions more acceptable to Maoris in .view of the reluctance on the part of seme of them to go to hospitals for examination.
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Northern Advocate, 4 September 1941, Page 6
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