MINISTER'S BUSY DAY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15183, 31 March 1917, Page 5

MINISTER'S BUSY DAY.

' HIS WANGANUI VISIT, V/jjH SEVERAL MATTERS DISCWOTPI _ Yesterday the Minister of Public 1 Health aad Internal Affairs spent n’,l busy day in Wanganui. Dunug'-thd'l evening he was occupied with' depsta- ’I tiops, and in the afternoon .he inayected the Jubliee Home at Aramoho Public Hospital' at Gonville. - Mraril’s visit to the taepitri was/rioaS;; connected with the matter of proridiujf 7 - accommodation for consumptive patients^ s The Minister stated that he did nri'ftrij*. - our the establishment of an additional; ward, as he preferred the isolation atari* * ter system—that is, the, erection, of - shelters with two. four, or more beds, in. each. The Board ha* promised 'to fully consider the question'of a rite-You these shelters, and a.report will no oerij, to the Department later. It it oom< sidered; that as the Government haq taken- over the Otaki Hospital;• and' Consumptive Sanatorium, the more aer& ’ ons cases can to dealt with there. Thepii* ’ fore it is held that local shelters w£t| only be required for incipient casesipd---oases is which the disease is not - far vanced. 11 -,,4 After visiting the hospital, the .Mjshv ister held a conference with the and the Beserves Committee of the Bor? : ongh Council, representatives of that' Plunket Society and members of thd e Hospital Board for the purpose of cow-, sidering proposals formulated by tiM ’ Plunket Society for taking over the Children’s Nursing Home, which is monly known as the Stewart Bequeoti';' As a result of this conference, it hat’’/ been decided that a further oanfeNsmf’' should be held between the' B«anita| V Board and the Plunket Society with '"iL, view to evolving a- satisfactory -sriHm#:for giving effect tb the bequeafc . \