TUBERCULOSIS PROBLEMS
OPENING OF CONFERENCE Auckland. Nov. 23. A conference of doctors and representatives of hospital boards in the northern half of the North Island called by the Health Department to consider problems relating to tuberculosis in that area was opened to-day, Dr. C. A. Taylor, director of the department’s tuberculosis division, presiding. Only doctors took part ip to-day’s meeting, which was concerned with prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Those present included the medical superintendents of public hospitals, medical officers of health, tuberculosis officers, superintendents of sanatoria, and certain other specialists. The meeting to-morrow will be attended by both doctors and hospital board representatives and will be opened by the Minister of Health, the Hon. A. H. Nordmeyer.
The conference is the second of a series of three covering the Dominion. The first was held at Palmerston North in September and the third will be in the South Island. The proceedings arc in committee. —P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 24 November 1943, Page 5
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