CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 11, 10 December 1926, Page 2

CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT

INTRODUCTION INTO HOSPITAL. ' MR RYDER’S MOTION. In accordance with notice of motion given previously, Mr F. J. Ryder, at the meeting of the Palmerston North Hospital .Board this afternoon, again advanced his suggestion (placed before the board on several previous occasions) that chiropractic treatment be introduced at the Hospital. The text of Ryder’s motion was as follows:—“That the question of the introduction of the chiropractic treatment into the Palmerston North Hospital be the subject of investigation by a special committee of this board to take evidence and report to the board.”' x Mr Ryder had added' as a footnote to his notice of motion that the question had been referred to the advisory committee which had refused to hear evidence and consider it. The matter, the chairman of the board (Sir James Wilson) recollected, had come up several times. At first he had ruled it out of order but so insistent was Mr Ryder that he had allowed the question to be referred to the advisory board which had declared that chiropractic was contrary to the act governing the control of hospitals. The advisory board, furthermore, believed that if it were introduced into the hospital the medical staff would leave. That, however, was by the way and the motion was now before the meeting for discussion. At this stage Mr Ryder stated that as the meeting was not a full one he would like to see the matter held over, and eventually it was decided to defer consideration of it until the February meeting of next year.