PUBLIC HEALTH.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1921, Page 1

PUBLIC HEALTH.

I. ■ ' N K\V ZK U.s.XD'S KX AA! I’l.K. SVDN'KV. He] I'miber 7 • I, u . wlinwn in a lecture delivered in Sydney yesterday by the I bn. \V |! T j._r.rc. Al.h.C.. that in smile i)i.inches of imblic health. X’cu Zealand had led tin- world. Dr l' l nly. !•»'- morly Health Officer in Amhlnnd and HOW Health OHiccr for tile idtv of_ Sy<l r V was in tin- ehair. Mr TriL'i's ,r,n. a very interestin'': tie. onnt of it'" development of !mri-h-tmo and administration since the passage ot the Public Health Act by the <oo crn ' nient of Mr Seddon in 100th and tl ‘ creation of a Department of Health under the direction of Hr. Malcolm M a-on. since s'vwded by Dr 'aimtine. The Department, he had now miinv divisions, one of the most im- ■ portant being the Child Midfare h'ee- ! tion. in charge of Dr Truhy Kino. Dr Kino, of course, did his most import nt work in regard to child welfare ant stirring the public mind to realisation of the significance of bis slogan, ‘lake care of the baby!” before hacioning an officer of the Department. The result df ’.o pev.oc.nl driving force and pnhl" co-opera tool. through the I’lnnket So eiet y and the I lepnrtinent of Health was that the Dominion could now boa si „f the world's lowest rate of infantile mui tality. Air Triggs , mphasisad thiyesterday hv reminding his ( ndimee from nn infant il<* mortality “f (i7.7d per tlnni“and births in U'lO. tie X'cw Zealand rale had de lined 0(; per thniisand births in 1010. Ih 1 rate for the Commonwealth ill 101 S " 00.21. \ view of tile hospital system id X> w Zealand, which so far as finance ; md confrol were coneerned dif!'"-

m-entlv from tivit -r , was instructive in many «v, One „l (i.,, lvcrnimendntions of a Unvnl ("inmission ulii.i. r.i-nllv onr.uno.l into tl,o svsteni -Mr Trijftis was a „|- this Con,mission interested 1 " jnidiviu- pm tii-nlnrly. " ,ls * train. 1 <li.-liei:«» should 1.- ;H to tin' staffs «r the hiroer lni“P'tals. uitli •Vw to l»ottor a<!tninistration "/Tlm eidiiisry deoartnn'nt in tin's.' ins,if, inns. T>in ovnorionf •>' ~.,st seemed f sinnnM tlmt I.x H"s a rort-iin moasnr.' of ’.mint wn ,,i,l 1,0 .... .....-I. ami a lniii-li mono wn, \J-r\nvy «li‘ t"-v nrfvi.lf.l tl.nn li't I '- iM . io :»1-n ol lli*’ f 1 in. ill X*.\v Zealand Hint :n"fo ntten,j si.nidd li ■miid to improve tin' : "- ,|.| modal ion provid-d lor .I'ddfn in M . t1 ,.01s il In-inn IIM-o.lisi'd Hint herd. iaroo nnnd.rrs of tlmm tuS''ttior tit .|. ,nis was ,11'on in nrave (ilij.'rt inn Cm,,.rally, ltis addrms was sun-rest m- :l1 Zealand's aloftnoss in re.sp.vl to jml.lio livniono and roeontivenoss t" nmd.'l-n toaehinn of tin' sul.jort. Hr Tri'-'iis i|iiot,'d with approval tlm oi'inimi rN ..sod lw'fi.r.' tlm lloval Ommissi.in on lies, dials !y ono of tlm hndmn in tlm 1 Joininion : “1 lm nei essily for larno Imsnital expenditure must l:«. regarded as tlm last i'osoi t of -'ll inooihlH'loul public l,o:i 1 tl, policy. Ilm id,.a 111' prevent inn siekness was at tlm mot of thi' Dominion's aotivitms. Ml Trinns's address was given at tlm AsseinM.v Hall in the llel.inrtnmnt of I'nlilie 1 nst net ion. under the auspice* cf (tie | foal til Soeioty of N'ew South Wales.