TUBERCULOSIS CAMPAIGN

Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1929, Page 7

TUBERCULOSIS CAMPAIGN

ISSUE OF SPECIAL STAMPS.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Oct 31.

The Minister of Health (Hon. A. J; Stallworthy) announces that the antituberculosis Christmas seal campaign . supplementary penny stamp will be superseded by a specially designed combined postage and charity twopenny stamp, the postage one penny and charity oho penny. The alteration in the • first proposal is made to comply with the international postal convention. . With reference to stamps used on letter faces - it was not possible to produce the particularly line design- most desired. Another year this may be adopted. •. The central figure of the-design upon which engravers are busy is a New Zealand nurse in uniform with a Maori border on either, side. -The words . “Help to stamp out tuberculosis” ap- • pear on the stamp-as an indication of ... the -puropsc' to which the proceeds will bo devoted. ' The designing and printing is being done in New Zealand, and it is expected that the; stamps will be on sale by the end of November. - - / “Thanks for your - generous. publicity,” writes a grateful ex-patient ; at tlie -Pukcora sanatorium, a young man now fully .restored to health and in--dpstry. 'He wrote to the Minister enthusiastically endorsing the anti-tuber-* culosis Christmas scab campaign and expressing pleasure in enclosing £25 ‘.or the purchase of 3000 ■ of these special' stamps. CANTERBURY ACTION. .. HOSPITAL BOARDS AMALGAMATE. . Christchurch, Oct. 30. 7 . Plans . for. the/amalgamation of hospital boards in the South Island in the districts north of the -Rakaia River were „approved, to-day. by .delegates of the .boards interested who met in conference in Christchurch. .-The delegates will report to their respective boards, and if 'the Scheme is accepted, as the delegates : intimated very probably would be the case, several ..boards will share in the cost of . interest charges and maintenance of the Cashmere Sanatoria and the people in their districts will be given equal chances of treatment with people in North Canterbury. The North Canterbury, board, will retain control of -. the institution, which remains its own property, but. dispensaries will" bo established in the districts of the other boards interested at. the expense of those boards and tuberculosis experts from North Canterbury will pay regular, visits .to. these dispensaries for • the ■ examination of cases at . the : expense, of the boards’ whoso districts they visit. Delegates' to-day expressed agreement with and great pleasure at thcr action of the North’Canterbury bpaljd .in formulating./ tho scheme which-Avas discussed. It was agreed ..that the conference was a big stop' foirwu.ld in the movement to' further reduce the death rate from tuberculosis in the Dominion. . . , 4 ,