FIGHTING CONSUMPTION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 92, 9 April 1914, Page 4

FIGHTING CONSUMPTION.

The other day a meeting was held in Christchurch to make preliminary arrangements for the carrying out of a proposal to establish a special school for children who have been in contact with tuberculosis patients or who are liable to contract the. disease. Dr. J. C. Blackmore, the medical superintendent of the Consumptive Sanatorium, said that the scheme was one which lie could wholeheartedly endorse. “Such a school,” ho said, ‘‘is necessary if wo are to combat the ease. In my duties at the Tuberculosis Dispensary in Armagh-street I have frequently seen children who were in danger of developing it, weak children I mean. Often, too, these children arc living in contact with tuberculosis patients, and if we could get hold of them for four or five months,

feed them up, and give them proper care in an open-air school, we could do a lot of good work. We usually find that these weak children are in homes that do not give them the host chances of becoming strong, and this is what makes the scheme so important. li wo could get a nice open-air school in a bright situation wo could build up these children, remove them from the primary schools, and attain a twofold object in combatting consumption. Such a school is absolutely necessary, and the movement should commend itself to the public.”