HEALTH AND HOSPITALS

Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21517, 4 September 1941, Page 7

HEALTH AND HOSPITALS

(To the Editor) Sir,—The needs of the community for health services have been before the public through the inquiry at Hamilton of the Health Department 1 on sanitary matters. The opinion formed by the writer is that the local bodies have fully justified their work. One point that stands out clearly is that the Health Department has been so fully occupied that the Soldiers’ Hospital Society has been like a voice in the wilderness crying out for the department to attend to more urgent matters. The Soldiers’ Hospital Society might achieve its objective best, now that the Health Department has fin- : ished its inquiry, if it asked the same j local bodies to institute an inquiry j ! into what the Health Department has ] . been doing with regard to wounded j • soldiers and why 400 children have j t been put by the department itself i into an old school where conditions are much more alarming than anything disclosed in the areas around Hamilton. After all we are a democracy, and the local bodies are the representatives of the parents whose soldier sons were put into the makeshift hospital at a wet school and of the parents whose young children were put into the old West School. If drainage conditions merited an inquiry, then an inquiry into the West School cannot be evaded and is imperative.—l am, etc., PHILIP MORTON