CONSUMPTIVE SANATORIA
NOT FOR INCURABLE CASES,
Speaking in reply to a deputation at Wellington on Thursday, the Minister for Health (lion. J. A. Young) stated: “Our consumptive sanitoria arc not institutions for 1 lie reception- of incurable patients. Only those with the prospect of a cure within reasonable time are accepted. The intention, of course, is that when those people are discharged, they will act as missionaries. What they have learnt about the-treatment and prevention of the spread of the disease will enable them to give guidance and aid to
others, as well as care for themselves. Recently a statement was made in the Press about patients being turned out of the AYaipukurau Sanitarium in six months. That creates quite a wrong impression. The rule is that every person who shows a fair prospect of improvement within, say: six months, is kept on, and it is left to the judgment of the superintendent to say how much longer he shall remain in the institution. Consumptive sanitoria arc not places for chronic or advanced cases; they arc the care of the hospital boards, whose duty it is to attend to their own incurable consumptives.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3042, 29 May 1926, Page 3
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193CONSUMPTIVE SANATORIA Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3042, 29 May 1926, Page 3
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