SICK PEOPLE AND BOOKS
ORGANISED LIBRARIES SUGGESTED
(Special to the 1 Stab.’] CHRISTCHURCH, February 8. “The literature at some public hospitals is worse than the disease that the patients arc suffering from.” This statement was made at a conference of representatives from the dominion’s public libraries to-day, when a remit to the effect that “ it is desirable that properly organised libraries should bo installed in public hospitals, and that the members of this association should assist in the organisation,” was before tho meeting. The Chairman (Mr J. J. Clark, of Dunedin), after making flic statement quoted above, explained that there were appeals for books for hospitals, and hundreds of books poured in, but they were only the ones people wanted to get rid of—such things as old volumes of Parliamentary debates and the likes. In themselves they were enough to make anyone ill. “It is tho duty of our association,” continued Mr Clark, “ to supply suitable literature to public hospitals with the co-operation of tho hospitals themselves.”
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Evening Star, Issue 19786, 9 February 1928, Page 4
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167SICK PEOPLE AND BOOKS Evening Star, Issue 19786, 9 February 1928, Page 4
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