NURSES AND T.B.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 35, 25 February 1937, Page 11

NURSES AND T.B.

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Younger Generation More Susceptible MASTERTON POSITION

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MASTERTON, Last Night. Evidence of T.B. among nurses at tliel Masterton Hospital was tho subject ofl a report diseussed by the Wairarapa! Hospital Board to-day. The ratherj alarming statement thafc the younger] generation of New Zealanders did noti show the same immunity to infection1 from pulhionary tuberculosis as in thej past, was made by Dr. R. A. Shore,, director of the hospitals division of the! Health Department, in the course of thediscussion. The Director- General of Health, Dr.. M. H. Watt, strongly advised the board: to take immediate action to relieve con-' gestion in the nurses' home besides] carrying out recommendations made byMiss Lambie, director of the nursingi division. It was state-d that during the last 12 months there had been at least seven members of the nursing- staff under review either as having tuberculosis or suspeeted of being inrec'te'd. The board decided to take action as recommended. Further consideration was also given | by the board to a building programme at Greytown and Masterton, works in progress and in prospect being now estimated to cost £82,714. These include the provision of increased hospital accommodation at Masterton to provide 60 additional beds by the erection of a thrce-storey block and also additional accommodation' for nurses in another three-storey block.