TREATMENT OF CONSUMPTIVES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 571, 28 July 1909, Page 9

TREATMENT OF CONSUMPTIVES.

(Br Telegraph.—Bpccial Correspondent.* , V : chrlstchurch, July/27. There is apparently,' -urgent need for the speedy completion' of. the, .Consumptive, Sana- { torhim. Nurse .Wall, who is in charge of tho ; district; nursing,' in. ; tho absence of Nurse Maude, lias,.told.a reporter that there wero,' a great many victims of consumption living ' with, their., relations, often in the most unfavourable circumstances, that .made their . own,chances qf.recovery very slight rand;presented a menace to tho health of, the neighbourhood.' In the majority of cases •• tho '.., friends of these poor people had! neither + ho'; means''of. treating them properly, nor the'..• knowledgo necessary to enable. them to do ; so., Wherever-therol was a consumptive patient living' under, such conditions, the't'o- [. .was ','a source.. of /infection :■ frc-ni' which' tho . disease would- spread practically' broadcast. •• Quite recently the- motliciv'of a largo family "•' of: children,'. who were; crowded into a' small ■'. house, had brought yto •: tho '■'■ nurses her ' nephew, who had' been living with;her and was a victim of consumption. Another instance that. had. come under her'notice-,-was that of the mother of a family, and in her ' case also, there was not the slightest attempt,' at isolation; -.' .Thero ■ was. a - very • pressing '■. need, Nurse Wall added, for tho Consumptive' Sanatorium: to be completed, .and sho '- was surprised at tho : Mayor's-statement that ' 'the institution would- not bo ready .until- , DecemboK Since: Nurse Maude's camp.hail * been closed, there were no properly-equipped,"■ 'facilities'for'.thc-'.treatment. of consumptives : other: than, were provided by thc-Chrisfc. ■ church; Hospital, where' an\old , ward had • been ■ fitted up to accommodate some of tho * more needy .cases-that s .were. I ''in ,Nurso•; Maude's care.' ," : -;■•, :■•; '■'■ : ~:'''"''■