Africa for Health.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13602, 23 May 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)

Africa for Health.

GERMAN EFFORTS TO BOOM. The efforts to make German West Africa a health. resort for "persons in the early - stage .of consumption, are being revived at Berlin now ;that? order has been, restored in the Protectorate. It is .not to :establish\sanatoria or hospitals -for consumptive patients in the Colony, but to induce men and women who 'are medically advised that residence in a suitable climate will stay the progress- of the disease they have contracted, and'.' perhaps cure it, to take up their residence in South-West Africa:instead of on 'foreign soil. When the idea was mooted some two years ago objection' was raised that, if the scheme were carried out, tuberculous diseases would be disseminated through 'the Colony, and that very great foarm, would be done there in order to benefit a few persons from the Mother Country. The committee, summoned by the then Director of the Colonial Department, Prince Hohenlohe Langenburg, which-in-cluded such authorities as Professor Koch, Fraenkel, Leyden, and Senator, decided that no such; danger existed if a careful selection werb made of.patients desiring to take advantage, of the benefit offered by the Colony. It is hoped, that men will take their families out and pursue their ordinary occupation in the Colony, and also that wealthy- patients will be attracted there by favourable opportunities of purchasing large estates, and by the excellent shooting that the Colony affords.