PLANS FOR FORMATION OF LAY T.B. ASSN. IN WANGANUI

Wanganui Chronicle, 26 February 1947, Page 4

PLANS FOR FORMATION OF LAY T.B. ASSN. IN WANGANUI

Proposals are being advanced for the formation of a lay tuberculosis association in Wanganui, and a meeting is to be held shortly to consider the matter.

‘Throughout this country there grows an ever-increasing awareness of the circumstances connected with tuberculosis, and consequently an increasing interest in the welfare of sufferers from this disease,” explained Mr. B. E. A. Williams, chairman of a Wanganui Junior Chamber of Commerce interim committee, which is promoting the scheme. "However, in the past little has been accomplished because there has been no guiding body to bring together the efforts of individual citizens.”

With this fact in mind, the junior Chamber of Commerce recently sponsored a meeting of prominent citizens and medical men to investigate the possibility of forming in Wanganui an association on similar lines to bodies already functioning in most large centres.

"A Jay tuberculosis association is defined by the executive of the Wellington association as an organisation of citizens and medical men to provide assistance for the benefit, comfort, and welfare of persons who are suffering or who have suffered from tuberculosis, and includes among its objects the dissemination ot knowledge on both the prevention and treatment of the disease. The many ways in which such groups can assist both patients and ex-patients need hardly be stressed,” said Mr. Williams.

The committee hopes that Dr. Taylor, director of the Division of Tuberculosis, Department of Health, will address thp Wanganui meeting.