HOSPITAL CONFERENCE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 107, 28 June 1911, Page 6

HOSPITAL CONFERENCE.

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, June 27. At the Hospital Conference, referring to the district nursing scheme, Dr Valiutine, Inspector-General of Hospitals, said that so far the scheme had been a great success, and an extension of tbo scheme might bo confidently looked for duying tbo next few years, of maternity -nurses especially. In tiio far north there was a great dearth, ,and encouragement must ho given to women to take up this work in country districts. Another subject requiring attention was the treatment of undesirable citizens. There was no doubt, be added, that the path of the wastrel was made far too easy,' and they should not allow mawkish sentimentality to prevent them from doing their duty by those outcasts and pariahs. They had no hesitation in confining in a hospital a person sulforihg from an infections disease, and why should they bo reluctant to mote out similar treatment to the vicious and intemperate and to the deserting father, and, if necessary, make them work for the support of their families. Until co-operation was brought about between public and private charitable organisations very little could be clone. Wellington, June 28. A further lengthy discussion took place at the Hospital Conference today on the treatment of consumption. The following resolution was eventually passed:—"‘That this conference, nihy recognising what a scourge consumption is to humanity, and the laudable efforts of the iieaitli Department to' cope with the disease, begs to assure the Department of its readiness to heartily co-operate in any ‘scheme of a preventative or curative .character that the Department may devise.” Wellington, June 23. A discussion tools place 011 the health of the native race. Mr. Powell (Waipiro) moved:—(l) That legislation lie passed, as soon as possible transferring the control of contagious diseases from the Department tiro Affairs to Public Health Officers; (2) that in order to conserve (fie Maori race tin* question of maternity am! infantile mortality ha dealt with directly by the responsible officers of Hospital I'Joairis. and as a further giiMi;si.nteo of. tins the natives race should I>o brought into conformity with Europeans under the Registration Act* and tin’s should bo applicable not only to deaths but to births and marriages; (3) that nurses should work among the Maoris in order to instruct them in accordance with European methods of living, both in sanitation and health.. Alter hearing a statement an to what the Department had done arid intended doing the mover withdrew clauses one and three and clause two was carried unnniraouslv.