HOSPITAL CONFERENCE.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1923, Page 4

HOSPITAL CONFERENCE.

[by TELEGRAPH —REU CRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. .July 17. At the Hospital Conference there was a discussion on the question ol consumption cases and the proposal of the Health Department to hand over the sanatoria at Otaki and Pukeroa. On the conference resuming. Sir Jns. Wilson questioned the advisability ol passing any motion, and suggested that the question be deferred for a few inont hs. I)r Valentine said this suggestion overwhelmed him, as he had placed all his cards mi the table. Nothing was m be gained by waiting. It was a question ol C s. il.. and he did not think thov would lose n ote than L 9 00

a year on them. A Voice: We are not s ui-ik d o that point. Will yi n guarantee it '■ Dr. Valentine: tine can't give

giinranlee, lmt 1 have run h.-tel In row ing dust in ti:e eyes oi tae boards.

Mr .1. Stallworthy utgcd that it was cruel to tako these peojtle, "'lie ' VOIC slowly dying, away i’rotn t licit' friends Thev should ascertain How far the boards wove prepared to deal with their own cases. Dr. Valentine said that lie had stated that the department could not run the institutions as economically as the Hospital Hoards. It »-.:>■ v-tv humiliating to hive to say that, but it "as because they had to go to other departments. He had no desire to thro" down the gauntlet: to the boards, tor they he'd no 'jurnel. A motion that the dn;av.'intent continue to administer the institutions IV i such districts as were not prepared le deal with their own T.H. cases, leaving other boards to make their own provisions was clylealeil. The chairman’s amendment (proposed rt the morning silting) "a- also defeated. as was a proposal to dcier He matter ponding Inithor pronosids as U lionuikiries and subsidies, another con reroute to l.e bold later. There Wa- tin secondor O r a motion In confer with the boards interested | in the two institutions. Finally, Sir James Vi ii-nu s molain: •■That this conference does not ap ] inve td' the proposal oi the He; art nielli I f Health l• ■ In.ltd over the sanatoria at (llahi and I’ul.t ros.” was earned bv H voles to live. \ deputation oil the 'loe-tum oi subsidies is to wail oil Mr Massey (Min in,.. ..f Khmn. . n Tbnr-dey morning Bra:-r>TKr?r-2^"3eArr>rrt c#r~r*t