WORK FOR T.B. PATIENTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 538, 15 December 1928, Page 7

WORK FOR T.B. PATIENTS

PRACTICAL APPRECIATION DR. G. J. BLACKMORE RETIRES (Special to THE SUN) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. After 19 years’ service as medical director of the Cashmere Sanatoria, Ur. G. J. Blackmore was presented with a cheque for £145 from the former patients, and with another cheque for £2O from the staff of the sanatoria, last evening. The Mayor, Rev. J. K. Archer, presided over about 200 patients and expatients. With him were Mr. A. T. Smith, chairman of the public health committee of the North Canterbury Hospital Board: Dr. and Mrs. Blackmore and their two daughters; and Dr. I. C. Macintyre, who will succeed Dr. Blackmore. When Dr. Blackmore came to Christchurch the city had the highest deathrate for pulmonary tuberculosis in New Zealand. For some years now the death-rate in Christchurch had been the lowest in the Dominion. Dr. Dobbs, an ex-patient, said, that Dr. Blackmore’s retirement was an irreparable loss to the whole of New Zealand. The doctor had never courted popularity at the expense of discipline. Dr. Blackmore said he had spent very nearly 20 years of his life with the institution, but he could not have done half his work without his very val Liable assistants, from whom he parted with regret.