TUBERCULAR PATIENTS
Sir, —Ts it true that the local Hospital Board has turned dcvvvn <in offer by the Government to build and equip at Government expense, s ward for consumptive patients?
Do the, members of the Board realise that there is a number of these unfortunate, people who cannot get treatment? That these people instead of being isolated are travelling in public vehicles, openly purchasing food in butchers/ bakers! and other shops, breathing their laden breatl* over everything and everybody? Expectorating on the footpaths' from whence the infectious dust rises to be inhaled by all and sundry? That some, are dying at home, coughing and spluttering and transmitting the disease tc friends and relatives? That at our hospital men and-boys convalescent from other diseases, can only bask in the sun on the verandah .surrounded by consumptives?
The Government knows that Sanatorium accommodation is hopelessly inadequate and offered to build an extra ward on top of the new additions now being erected at the hospital. Has this offer been refused?
Yours etc.,
G. 8.,
* (For answer to the above, queries we refer our correspondent to an article elsewhere in this issued Ed.)
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 17, 17 October 1944, Page 4
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191TUBERCULAR PATIENTS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 17, 17 October 1944, Page 4
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