T.B. Investigators to Visit Hospitals
COMMITTEE’S WORK STATEMENT BY MINISTER OF HEALTH The committee which has been appointed to investigate the treatment of tuberculosis in New Zealand is to have the unqualified right of entry to any hospital or sanatorium in New Zealand. This statement was made this morning by the Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Health, regarding the appointments of Dr. F. W. B. Fitchett, Dr. D. E. Fenwick and Dr. T. W. J. Johnson, to investigate T.B. in the Dominion, and who will start their work in June. The Minister stated that the members of the committee will be attached to the Health Department temporarily, but they will not be under the control of the department. Mr. Young expects that the four metropolitan centres in New Zealand will be visited, and the work and methods carried out for the care and treatment of consumptives will be observed. He -wants satisfaction regarding the sufficiency and adequacy of the accommodation and methods employed in the treatment of T.B. patients throughout New Zealand. The Minister said that he had noticed in a Press message received from Christchurch that Dr. Blackmore seemed to have misgivings as to the committee of inquiry when he stated that the Health Department was appointing a commission to try to discredit the work that had been done, and was being done, in the South Island. That was a. mistaken view, said the Minister, as the committee was being set up with no hostile intention. On the other hand, as far as the Minister was concerned, he would welcome the co-operation of Dr. Blackmore and all others, either in the South Island or the North Island, who were specialists in the care and treatment of T.B. sufferers. Mr. Young stated that the object of the Government in setting up the committee is to assure that the best possible service may be rendered not only to sufferers, but to combat the dread disease. The move is entirely in the interest of suffering humanity.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 359, 21 May 1928, Page 13
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