T.B. INQUIRY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 22 May 1928, Page 3

T.B. INQUIRY.

OBJECTS OUTLINED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Monday. The committee of inquiry regarding the treatment of consumption in New Zealand will not be hostile to Dr. Blackmore, stated the Minister of Health (the Hon. J. A. Young), when interviewed on his arrival in Auckland this morning. “I notice by a Press report sent out from Christchurch that Dr. G-. J. Blackmore, Director of Tuberculosis Institutions in North Canterbury, said that the Health Department was appointing a Commission to try to discredit the work that had been done, and was being done, in the South Island,” said the Minister. ‘‘That is a totally incorrect view. 1 hope that whatever the findings of the committee may be, they will be helpful, not only to the Government, but to Dr. Blackmore and other New Zealand physicians specialising in the treatment of T.B. patients. Indeed, I would welcome the co-operation of Dr. Blackmore in any work which may be done to help sufferers. ’ ’ The Minister explained that he had appointed three physicians of outstanding ability to act as a committee of inquiry and had done so only after consulting the executive of the British Medical Association in order that physicians of requisite standing might be selected. Not only would the committee visit the four main centres, but the physicians would inspect all sanatoria in the Dominion where T.B. patients were cared for. The desire of the Minister is not that the committee should investigate any scientific or technical phases. The committee has been appointed to investigate thoroughly the sufficiency and the methods employed throughout the Dominion for the comfort and treatment of sufferers.