HOSPITALS CONFERENCE.
OPENED BY THE GOVERNOR. Wellington, This Day. • The Hospitals Conference began its deliberations to-day in Parliament House, and will be continued (or the next three days. The conference was opened by the Governor.who remarked with satisfaction upon the fact that New Zealand already hod a system of hospital control, and charitable aid work on very, similar lines to those advocated by the English Poor Law Commission. The question of adminiitrative control of tuberculosis was; most important. He wa* glad lo see in the Dominion a comprehensive attempt being made to check the question of poor law medical service, Which was most important, as was also district nursing. Dr Finch read an address from the Hon. G. Fowlds, who was unable to be present, in which address the Minister stated that some 30,000 school children had some form of disease. Medical inspection could be operated for £15,000, only lialf the amount being thrown on ratepayera. ■ . The Inspector-general, in his remarks.mentioned he feared that cancer was on the increase, deaths last year from it* cause being 711.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 373, 28 June 1911, Page 5
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177HOSPITALS CONFERENCE. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 373, 28 June 1911, Page 5
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