FEAR OF CONSUMPTION.
" NOT VERY CONTAGIOUS."
Consumption is not very contagious, according to Dr. Bernstein, who lately came out from England to take charge of the Maungakawa Consumptive Sanitarium. Ho stated at a meeting of the Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board last evening that patients who were very ill liked to be with their families, and families who had any sense of humanity < liked their relatives with them. " Since I came hero," he added, "I have seen some of the most abominable things that ever came- under my notice —wives refusing to live with their. • husbands, and children flying from their fathers, because they had consumption. Tliero seems to be a deplorable fear about consumption, which is quite wrong, for in a. properly managed and clean place I would sooner bo with consumptives than in this boardroom with all its windows closed."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15685, 12 August 1914, Page 5
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143FEAR OF CONSUMPTION. New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15685, 12 August 1914, Page 5
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