TREATMENT OF CONSUMPTION
COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE. (Special to Daily Times.) WELLINGTON, May 18. The Minister of Health (Mr J. A. Young) announced to-day that the committee appointed to investigate certain aspects of consumption treatment in the Dominion will comprise three physicians— Drs F. W. B. Fitchett (professor of medicine at Otago University), D. E. Fenwick (Wellington), and T. W. J. Johnson (Auckland). The committee will be unable to commence its work immediately as Professor Fitchett is engaged in examination work at Otago University until the end of May. It is expected, however, that the committee will start early in June. The committee has been requested by the Minister to inquire into matters relating to the treatment of consumptives, more especially with regard to the class of consumptives admitted to sanatoria in New Zealand, the length of stay, and whether patients admitted to sanatoria are suffering from tuberculosis in such a form as to render a prolonged stay in those institutions necessary or desirable. It is hoped that the report will be completed within a month of the start of the inquiry.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20412, 19 May 1928, Page 12
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