URGENT TUBERCULAR CASES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3864, 3 April 1928, Page 30

URGENT TUBERCULAR CASES.

NO accommodation at CASHMERE. CHRISTCHURCH, March 30. .twenty women suffering from tuberculosis and regarded by medical men as urgent cases are waiting to gain admis slon to the sanatorium at Cashmere Hills but there is no accommodation for them’ Some of the women have been waiting for six months. In a forcible address at the meeting of the North Canterbury Hospital Board last Wednesday Mr A. T Smith drew attention to the need for undertakina the treatment of tuberculosis as a national movement, and also to the need for more accommodation at the Cashmere Institution. Dealing with the. question of the admis sion to the sanatorium of people who are not bona fide residents of Canterbury, Dr G. .1. Blackmore said that up till about 12 months ago it was a rule for all hospi tals that they did not take as patients people who had not been resident in the hospital district for 12 months. About a year ago this, regulation was chanced, and hospitals now take as patients people who hav € resided in the district fop three months. Dr Blackmore considers that this rule should not have been changed for tuberculosis institutions. The effect of it must be to send people suffering from the disease to the district in which the insti tution is situated, the residential qualification being much easier to comply with He did not think there were many people who came under this heading in the institution at present, but there were some who were waiting.