" Let us be heartily ashamed of all our hospitals; any hospital is a confession of failure,” said Sir Truby King when speaking to the members of the Pluuket Society at Christchurch (reports the Press). The maintenance of health should come before the prevention of disease, and the continued existence of disease is a-re-proach to us. We have tome to accept such things as the decay of the teeth as inevitable. The farmer does not calmly accept such a disease as footrot among his sheep, and content himself with doctoring. Hie method is to alter for the animals those conditions of their life that have caused the disease. Prevention rather than cure is the essential.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 4032, 23 June 1931, Page 26
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114Untitled Otago Witness, Issue 4032, 23 June 1931, Page 26
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