WORK FOR DISCHARGED PATIENTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1602, 20 November 1912, Page 8

WORK FOR DISCHARGED PATIENTS.

DISCUSSION AT THE HOSPITAL BOARD. Some discussion tool: place at Yesterday's meeting of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board or. the question of obtaining suitable employment for these 'men who had been discharged from the 'various hospitals as having heon cured, and also thoso suiToring from any incurable discaso. Mr. A. H. Jlindmarsh was of tho opinion that the Government should be naked to pro%-ido a farm on which the,men could work. The board should try and see if -picT could pet it at once, as it was urgently needed. He concluded bv saying that there was n fearful lot of misery attached to this question, T-ho Mayor (Mr. J). rciid that ho constantly oamo in contact with these matters. He instanced a case, in* which a young man, who had lo support a wifo and child, had applied to him for work, stating that lie was unable to get employment as ho had been discharged frofri a public institution. Tie thought that a deputation, consisting of all the members of tho board, shoiild wait on the Minister for Public TTc.iltli to urge upon him tho urgent nml for permanent work for thoso men. Co moved accordingly. Rov. Van Stavoren isiid (hut it was "one of the blots on our eivilir-a-tion." These men could not got employment, and something must ho dons urgently. It mount a tremendous exprti.v, end members of the board should not In** sisht ef that. One member suggested that the matter should stand over'until after the report of the recent Medical Conference had been submitted to the Minister. The chairman: "I lake it Hiat every member of this board feels it jmpernlii'o tnat something should be done. As far as working on n farm was eoui'erned, something should be done," The motion - vha carried unnniiuoueljv