IMPORTANT APPOINTMENT
TUBERCULOSIS ■ OFFICER FOR ' - WELLINGTON. Yesterday afternoon the Wellington. Ffospital Board appointed Dr. Basil Adams, 8.A., M.D., N. 8.8. Ch. Oxon, Medical Tubercular Officer to the board. '• Whilo tho motion to niake tho aprjointment was being considered, Mr. B. R. Gnrdcner moved: "That the proposed appointment of a medical tuberculosis officer at a salary,of £600 per annum and house allowance, should be rescinded.". ■ ' ' The motion was adversely criticised by various speakers nnd rejected. Dr. Adams was for three years medic?l superintendont at the AVost Wales Sanatorium, house _ physician at "Bart's," resident medical officer at Victoria Park Hospital for Consumption. FTp was selected.by Sir Robert Philip, 'of Edinburgh, from all British candidates to take up the post of tuberculosis medical ofGper at Jagger,'Durban, for.j a three-years' 1 engagement, which- has ■ just expired. He has had ten years' tuberculosis experience and work in all its branches. His' appointment in Wellington -will date from six months hence, as he wishes to go from Natal to_ England to see 1 his parents and to -sit for examination for the degree of Dr. of Public Health.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2234, 21 August 1914, Page 7
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182IMPORTANT APPOINTMENT Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2234, 21 August 1914, Page 7
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