TREATMENT OF T.B.
A SPECIALIST’S VIEWS. ‘ ‘COMMITTEE TOO OPTI .411 ST IC. ’ ’ (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Aug. 24. At a meeting of the Hospital Board Dr. Lyth. medical director of the tuberculosis institution, commenting on the inquiry committee’s report, stated that the policy of retaining patients longer than the period intended originally. was forced on the superintendents by the unsatisfactory results of brief educational treatment. The average stay of patients at Pleasant Valley was more than double that in 1912 and the result had been gratifying in reducing relapses. The committee, in his .opinion, was too optimistc abput the possibilities
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Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17438, 24 August 1928, Page 5
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