HOSPITAL CONFERENCE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 110, 30 June 1911, Page 6

HOSPITAL CONFERENCE.

(Per Press Association.) , . i Wellington, June 29. To-day the Rosy it als Conference passed the following resolution': That •it is desirable that an Act bo passed to provide State farms, industrial 'homes or other suitable places of healthy restraint for the enforced detention of confirmed drunkards'"or other self-iudulgents who, having a wife and family, incapacitate themselves from wage-earning or spend an undue share on themselves, thus leaving the maintenance of wife and family to charitable aid boards. That the time spent in such homos he in proportion to tho number of convictions, and that the earnings of such individuals be handed to the boards for the benefit of the families. It was also'desired to urge the Government to take more active measures lor arresting deserters of wives and children, and parents of illegitimate children, and getting them to remunerative work. The Hospital Conference to-night passed resolutions as follows: “That, with a view of affording relief to settlors in tho outlying districts, and to facilitate the training of mateviutv nurses, this conference considers it advisable that maternity wards be attached to all country hospitals of 20 beds or under; that the Health Act he amended to define who is responsible for burial in cases of death where there is not sufficient money and no relations; that section 8b of the Hospitals and Charitable lustitulipnc Act, 1909, be amended, giving boards more authority in regard to the. committal of children to industrial schools, by receiving notice of intention to, bring such children before tbc Court, so that evidence may be adduced, if possible, of the ability of near relatives to contribute towards the cost of maintenance; that the powers of boards. bo enlarged to enable them to reclaim and educate children living in evil environments; that the Government be recommended to alter the Old Ago Pensions Act in. tbc direction of providing that when an old age pensioner is convicted a second time for drunkenness, his pnsion certificate bo handed to the Charitable Aid Board of the district in which the offender resides; that the Government be asked to introduce legislation whereby what is known in some countries as the ‘Curfew Law’ may be enforced in this .Dominion.” Wellington, June ~30. There was another discussion at tho Hospital Health Conference today on the treatment of consumption. A motion by Liu- Rev. Closs (Canterbury) was, carried endorsing Hie plan of campaign outlined in the last health report, providing for a rigorous enforcement of the notification of all cases of tubercular disease. A motion by Mr Ewing (Dunedin) was also adopted, urging the Government to place such a sum on the estimates and frame such regulations no will enable Hospital Boards, to en dcavoiu to effectively' stamp out the spread of tuberculosis.