FIGHTING CONSUMPTION.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 35, 10 February 1909, Page 9

FIGHTING CONSUMPTION.

-" .'-; -' -■'■< ;--■ -jjvi.- \j-= ■■-'•;■•;-r--,rs ?■ ! '„..■';'•". r /" ' ' rln * previous waS intimated that :the : ;JEJpn. .Bud£p,'"Jpnister for. Public Health, ;\Fpnld, i 'in:th.e> course • next ; three Weeks, visitiHhfe con* > sumption sanatorium: in\the" Waikato and \ the Karere Camp for- 'cured consumptive . patients,.near Botcrua. The Minister, it may be eaid, is favourable to the scheirie' ": ■to? t providing butdodi? f;w.o|k ; jn; r Mijitable'' -> localities for "cured" ~er-p»tients=of con-f '■ sumption {hospitals. It is probable'that his visit to the North will result _in -the j Government ' -miking:'. furiSeiv p'rovMion -, for-thi out'dooj persons , •who' have suffered trom tuberculosis." Ife' ; is contended- thai the tree-planting? j Camps will-be a , pwfftafile/investment - .to the State, liecause.-the'inSn. will no ■ longer , be a burdea oa ihV- country, but . will be able in many cases to keep them- ! areas of"- what is now-barren \ land will .give '&■ profitable yield ofjtim- ; ber. When the.new system has been a little, longer 'in working■ Order,'and its" ieneflts' become; known;: it is _ex- .' pected that large sufferers \ from tubercular diseases will avail thenv . : selves of the opportunity of - engaging in. ; buidoor work under ih'ese conditions, in? stead of going back to 1 their old indoor ■ employment, with its" attendant : ,of a relapse. This' .system -of outdoor' i employment is regarded as <jhe of* wg • most' important featoirey bf ths. campaign 3 against'■ tuberculosis, p The authorities', i contemplates establishing a "Consumption J ieay from j Timaru. „ ....'' ';'.'";^'■„'.'.; ■ :'~'.. ; -'■ In.Tegard to *he employment of eipatieirts of consumption sanatoriurns in .' tree-planting, the Hoii; Mrl'Buddo sajd J that it'was his intention ■ to" make .as J public as possible the danger to . the ■'■ pμblic _ v of having. ..consumptive patients ■ living amongst the healthy. "The Department has now a free.hand to', impress upon all] local authorities /the ab- ■ solute necessity for dealing-at <iitce with persons suffefing" from; pulmbnarjc con- ; sumption, as there is no longer any'ques- l tion of inflicting Hardship- on -the poor t sufferers, Who were ■ previously., often driven from pillar.to' .being no. place io accommodate them. • ie ,