SOLDIER PATIENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 139, 7 March 1919, Page 9

SOLDIER PATIENTS

OFFER OF A'MILITARY ANNEXE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, March 6. A deputation from the Soldiers' Welfare Committee met the Acting-Prime lUiniater to-day, and offered to pay rent, taxes, etc., of a house to be used as a military annexe for soldier out-patients, "providing for cases where long journeys, etc., cause exhaustion. . They urged that the scheme would relieve congestion in the hospital, which rns partly caused by the fact that men vhq were really outpatients had to be kept in hospital because there was no handy accommodation outside. The deputation urged that such a house be controlled by the Defence Department. .Sir James Allen, replying, said' he recognised the desirability of treating men. as near as possible to their homee, which 'had been the-policy of the Department .from the beginning, but during the past few, months, 'owing; to the largo 'number coming, it had been, necessary to make accommodation at Trentham, which was being fitted ior 800 to K-00 men, with a speedy extension to 2200. He-also wanted tlio public.to know tJ.at the policy of the Department was to keen men in hospital , as long as the trerituwnt was beneficialRegarding out-patients, the whole position was. .becoming:, prominent—first inregard to the time of discharge; second-; iy, in regai;d to. the facilities given of keeping them occupied and for'vocational' .training. The Department was going to keep in.closer touch with out-patienta, because! ninny of the staff, folt they were not recovering as quickly as.they ought to. Regarding the tlFer, the Minister promised to consider it favourably, if the report he would immediately obtain from Colonel Christie showed .any instiSca' Ho". ■■ . . .■_ V ... "Blessed are the Huppiness-makers." . —Henry Ward Beecher. Because of the good, health—and with good health, happiness—that ' if'.-haa brought, Baxter's Luiig Preserver stands out as a Happiness-maker. . Whether you are suffering from cough, cold,-.eoro. throat, or chest trouble,'take Baxter's. It will bring relief promptly and surely. Order laree 2s. 6'd. bottle—Advt.-"

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