THE WHITE PLAGUE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 654, 3 November 1909, Page 7

THE WHITE PLAGUE.

; . ;;• 7; position ; [ 'in ;new Zealand.': .: : >:'■; :;i':\ST^piE;CMPAI6N;;DESIIiAi3LB; : '7:.: i .The ShiofHEaith" Officer (Dγ; Mukm)- writes in thb: annual report of ths Health Department that Jfew , Zealand:stiEJceeps..a front in the ■ war agaiiiat; consumption..'The Ddininioii-' ■is eloiyly. ' : but., purely' being •. provided 'with Sanatoria;; open-airr.shelters, etc; ■'When 'every hospital.board has: made provision for' its sibkj it might ba expected: that'-there , would, bo-'a--marked7-''decrease ' in 'tho .- incidence -if tb-e ; \disease.v : ;Te , Waikatp ■■ Sanatormm : still;, vcontmtiea .-,its:-.\:beheficeni. ; ' work, and' to seo-; its ■sphere'of lisefulttess' eurtaijeil...■ Tho expenditure -'at" the tree-planting ;■ camp' at Katere , his been most iiuccessfulj...the;-only fault being -■ that. ; thb encampment'was' : top' staalj."-. -. - \ ..' ■ "--■ 'u r !i .'on . t0,. ; remark;—"l ' had hoped that, this year would have, seen "us able .to. answer.'- in , ,thq-:afßrmatiTO 'thp; petition to you 'by the 'cured? women patien&.'o If the lot of : . the man- suffering • frdln : consumption is hard, truly tha path of. tho.woman Is often ikwful.in.its hopelessness.. .1 speak of those who are poor, and have few friends.'--A housemaid or' a dres3maKer,;-perhap3 dependent entirely dependent.upon her earnings, falls'siok. .Grant.that she.haS been able:'to get early.ad l missidh:te a sanatorium, and that she recovers, .where can she:go to earn a livelihood ? It has only-.to bo; mentioned that'shi) has come from a. sanatbrrata-and-her'way isibSrred t6 her former occupation. Some one, either the central authority or the several Hospital Boards, should provide .a farm ; where'such ■ poor 'souls- could work.; 'If a place and/shelters were provided by tho Gpyernmeht;:the various boards would; I am' euro, contribute.-The Nelson Board has already affirmed its willingness to do so. Until Suitable, work .is prbvidedr-such as. bee-keeping, poultry-raising, : early•flower-growing, l etc,—for , thd; ,'oared''woman,: much of'tho gpod 'donejn the sanatoriai and annexes will be wasted. , ' I Now .Zealand (hB adds) has done much to check j'.th'e enbmyjv.biit ene or. her- wealthy i philanthropists .must,.do;.moro.',; We have ■■• a chincein a small country like this to effeotually stamp out consumption if wo continue bur efforts,.but the campaign, , like.all others worthy of engagement; entails,ielf-sacrifice.; .: • :■■-.•-