THE KELVIN COMMISSION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19032, 9 June 1924, Page 11

THE KELVIN COMMISSION

LABOUR PARTY'S VIEWS. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 7. The following resolution ha* been passed by the national executive of the New Zealand Labour Party: “That the national Party deeply deplores the state of affairs revealed in the report of the Kelvin Maternity Home Commission, and considers that such is far from creditable, either to the Health. Department er to the medical profession. The executive considers that it is regrettable and highly reprehensible that, while the Health Department, under the administration of several Ministers, Was fully aware of the high death rate caused by outbreaks of puerperal septicaemia in private maternity hospitals e\er a long period, it took no steps towards effective control until the lives of so many mothers were sacrificed. It further declare* that the time has arrived for the establishment of adequate maternity hospitals,, run under the best and most efficient administration, as part of a national system of medical service and maternity attention, whereby the disastrous element of private gain could be eliminated.”