Sanatoria Grouping Urged in T.B. Plan

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 595, 22 February 1929, Page 8

Sanatoria Grouping Urged in T.B. Plan

ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL HOSPITALS’ PROPOSALS (From Our Xevident Reporter) WELLINGTON. Counter-proposals to the repo-. „ the Committee on TubercninX. be submitted to the Hospital 80.2 f Conference on March 12 elude suggestions that the Domirf*' should be divided into four areS ? 0 ® that the boards should combined administer them. 10 The Waipiata sanatorium schen,. supplies the groundwork of the Dm posals of the executive of the asscSa’ tion to the conference delegates X, in view- of the controversy which fA lowed the publication of the special committee’s report the medical siS of the treatment has been left severe], alone. y The suggested grouping of the hos pital boards is as follows: Auckland.—Mangonui, Whangaroa. Ba* of Islands, Hokianga, Kaipara, WhanS* rei, Auckland, Waikato, Thames, Coro" mandel, Waihi, Tauranga, Bay of Plent--' Opotiki, Taumarunui. Wellington.—Al*takaoa, Waipu, Cook. Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, Waipawa, Dance! virke, Stratford, Hawera, Pa tea, Wan«„ nui, Palmerston North, Wairarapa, Welk ington, Wairad, Picton, Nelson, Taranaki Canterbury.—Westland, Buller, InanraZ hua, Grey, North Canterbury. Otago.—Ashburton, South Canterbury Waitaki, Otago, South Otago, Vincent! Maniototo, Southland, Wallace, and Fiord. Proposals are that the control of each district shall be vested in a committee constituted under section 31 of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, and that conferences should be arranged between each of the suggested groups for the definition of the powers and procedure of the joint committee, and also its constitution. The need for “a more uniformly active policy in treatment, and mor? equitably sharing the burden of the more expensive measures against tuberculosis.” is given in support of the suggested combination. At present Mr. A. V. Keisenbnrs secretary of the association, is preparing a report on the necesasry legal steps following any decision to change the present system.