HOSPITAL CONTROL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 9 October 1924, Page 5

HOSPITAL CONTROL.

CARE OF CONSUMPTIVES. PENSIONS DISCUSSED. (BY TELEGRAPH —PREBB ASSOCIATION. 1 WELLINGTON, Oct. 8. At the conference of hospital board, Mr M. Fraser (Taranaki) moved: “That the Government should hear the cost of the treatment of all tubercular cases, on the grounds that such cases are a menace to the public health of the country.” He stated that his board had been penalised very heavily over such cases. The> should be paid for by the people to whom they belonged, and not by those who had had them for a year or two. It was decided to consider at the same time as this remit the following remit: “That this conference considers the principle of the suggested amalgamation of hospital boards generally throughout New Zealand for the treatment of consumption with a view r to pooling the capital cost and: maintenance thereof in proportion to the rateable capital value of districts in order to facilitate the matter, and a committee be set up forthwith to report thereon and that such report he submitted to and considered at this conference.” Mr F. Quelch (Otago) moved this.

Mr W. Horrall (North Canterburv) moved: “That the Pensions Act relating to widows and children be amended so that in the event of parents being divorced and eventually the male parent dying the children shall he entitled to a pension. Although divorce has annulled the marriage between their parents it has not annulled the parentage or legitimacy of the children.” The conference passed this, and also the following North Canterbury remit: “That women whose husbands are chronic invalids and are unable to. work should also be entitled to a pension.”