SURVEY PLANNED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19700, 4 August 1938, Page 20

SURVEY PLANNED

TREATMENT OF SICKNESS GREAT BARRIER ISLAND HEALTH SERVICES VISIT P,Y OFFICIALS (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. A thorough survey of the health protection facilities on Great Barrier Island is to be made in the next seven days by two officers of the Department of Health at Auckland. An inspector and a nurse left Auckland for the island by the steamer Kawau at midnight. The Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Hughes, stated that the general information from the district nurse on the island, Mrs. McLean, was not disquieting. An improvement in the position noticeable a ■faw days ago had occurred: So far as the Health Department was concerned, said Dr. Hughes, the position was that there was no call for immediate action. However, it had been considered advisable' to make a thorough survey of the position on the island in order to decide what should be done in the future. The inspector, who left last night, will concentrate upon sanitation provisions in the Maori settlement at Katherine Bay. He was to be landed at Port Fitzroy. The nurse will make a general survey of the island, with the object of gaining first-hand information for the department on the various difficulties facing the settlers from a health point of view, one of these being the difficulty in getting - from one part of the island to another quickly.