IS PHTHISIS DECREASING?
.A ! WORD ON, ROOM-LETTING.' (By Telcgrapli,—PrcEa' Association.) > Invcrcarglll, April Vj. • In the course of his annual report In ; tho Hospital Board, Dr. Bleakley (Health Officer for Southland) stilted that einc« ■ 1 the introduction of preventive measures ' against tuberculosis in New Zealand somo years ago, both the. incidcnco and mor- ' ; tality rates have slowly but steadily declined. Tho present period, as far as , Southland was concerned, was slipping n. further cousid,erablo decrease, tho'figures being littlo nioro than half tho number recorded for a similar. period three years ago. There is yet (tho report continued) a great amount of carelessness, in taking elementary preventive steps. This is illustrated in the case of at least ono district . in his division where boardinghouse- > ! hoopers and owners of- cottages occa* ; sionally lot rooms or cottages to tuber- ' culous subjects for, a lengthy period, . j Nothing probably was afterwards done lu (ho rooms or contents before again let 1 ; ting them to another p.vrty.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1721, 11 April 1913, Page 5
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161IS PHTHISIS DECREASING? Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1721, 11 April 1913, Page 5
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