SAFEGUARDING OF HEALTH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19209, 24 December 1925, Page 12

SAFEGUARDING OF HEALTH.

THE HOSPITALS CONFERENCE. NORTH CANTERBURY REMITS. [B* TELEGRAPH. —OWN COB3IE3FONDENT.] CHKISTCHURCH. Wednesday. The North Canterbury Hospital Board to-day adopted the following remits to be forwarded to the annual conference of hospital boards, which will bo held in Dunedin on February 24:—• 1. That the Government be asked to provide a special sanatorium for tuberculosis patients who, owing to criminal tendencies or filthy and objectionable habits, are unsuitable for admission to ordinaly sanatoria, and who yet are a menace to the public health, and it is desirable should be compulsorily detained until such time as the disease is arrested.

2. That the Government be still urged to amend the Hospitals Act to enable hospital boards to receive money on temporary deposit, the limit in this direction being that at no time shall the deposits in hand exceed the amount owing to the board as levy and subsidy. 3. That in "the- interests of public health legislation be obtained requiring municipalities responsible for populations of 20,000 or over to prepare town-planning schemes for presentation to the Ministry of Health by a date to be arranged, along the lines of the English Act. 4. That the Government Departmental regulations in regard to inspection of dairies and dairy herds bo revised, brought up to date and more rigidly enforced, also that the clause in the Municipal Corporations Act empowering municipalities to establish milk stations, etc., be reaffirmed.