STATEMENT QUESTIONED

Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1923, Page 3

STATEMENT QUESTIONED

To the Editor). sj,. In you I’ report of the Ib-kitika Borough Council meeting of October .-[i, [1,,, .'Jmor is slated lo have said : ••As a matter of fact the only place w here then' was any serious infectious was at th ' Mental llospii| . '' and t hen again : - "V) hat iiueeiious disea-.'s l imre were in the 1,-wu w. !-■ licarl;. all able to be traced to mil -a< l ' i rum tin' M cut a I I I o-|U-Sl a! euii-nl - such a- the-e ;iie. I know, rife and U'Uallv best ignored, hut when ill" Mayor ma!;-'- Use oi them at a Coiimil meeiing I am bound ln ~role-!. There lias undoubtedly he-ui :i eei'i ain numher of typhoid i, ,1 to lb-' Menial Hospital, hut I challenge him m name a single ol her “serious infect ions disease" that ,hi- place i~ responsible for. As a matter of fact ure a singularly hcaltliv community. Tuberculosis, diphtheria, -yphilis. gonorrhoea, sear--1,.; fever, measles. wh-mping cough ole. all neeur in the P.orough and ( \>ui l l v !)iit not livro.

! in ininwint’ ci iln* Alnyor vvei having paid a visit to the Mental Hospital, though it is obvious lie has listelied to much gossip about it. T ..Poiit'i be pleased lo show him round. | can -how him much that is unsatisfactory. bat I can ids,, show him up-ii'-dale drainage and clean conditions, which 1 am -ure he would he the h'' st lo mi-nil compare more than );i\oui;,hiv with ilin-i' ol:t ainiiig in the Ihir-

L ve an- in take the incidence oi |iiisi-a-c a- a < riterion ol -,iitit arv i .mdiiinu-, then we are lotct-d L,, legal,! till- Boi'niigh a- a more dangctuiis nlaci'- than t lie .Mental Hospital for one i" -iK-nd i,:u '- lit,- in. I am el,-.. 11. M . I!F( TI A NAN, .Medical Sitpei-iiitemlenl. Mental Hospital, Hokitika. Bth Ocr.