INFANTILE PARALYSIS.
TREATMENT AT ROTORUA. PROTEST AGAINST REDUCTION. [nv TELKGHAPII. —OWN COH RESPONDENT.] ROTOItUA, Thursday. At a meeting of the Kotorua Chamber of Commerco last evening mention was made of the proposal of the Health Department to reduce to a minimum tho provision at King Georgo V. Hospital, Kotorua, for the treatment of infantile
paralysis. Mr. G. French said that when the outbreak occurred in 1916 tho Dominion was without an efficient equipment to deal with it. In 1919 Dr. Wylio was appointed inspector-general of hospitals. He built at great expense an efficient hospital at Kotorua, making it the centre for the treatment of this disease. It was now proposed, on tho score of expense, to do away with this special hospital and treat these cases in different centres.
-As the hospitals in the largo centres vvero already overcrowded, said Mr. French, and the equipment aitll buildings already existed at Rotorua, the proposed action of tlio department would dost roy the good work done in the past and find the Dominion unprovided fo meet another epidemic if it should come.
Ifc was decided to write to the Mmistor of Health drawing his attention to the position and asking him to reconsider the matter.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19991, 6 July 1928, Page 12
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203INFANTILE PARALYSIS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19991, 6 July 1928, Page 12
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