CANCER CAMPAIGN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 896, 13 February 1930, Page 12

CANCER CAMPAIGN

HOSPITAL BOARD’S Am SOUGHT

DISCUSSION AT HAMILTON From C>ur Own Co,Tr s „„ ]lin , HAMILTON. Tcfcv The active co-operation of wL boards in combating canc-r * sired by the Health Department ** At the meeting of the Waikato pital Board today. Dr. Valine Director-General of Health. i u a Ci s 'j pointed out that hospital parents quiring treatment were often w* capped through being unable to w railway fares to centres. boards were asked to give consiiw tion by providing board and led* and railway fares to indigent per*#. l who have to be sent from theihospital districts to centres for rzd°, ‘ treatment. The chairman. Mr. Campbell j 0 v stone, considered the boards ski give every facility to such person * Mr. J. J. Ryburn stressed the w, for adequate supervision of patienp Dr. W. M. Hoekin, medical intendent, pointed out that a fair n U her of Waikato Hospital patients he been'sent to Auckland for radirn treatment. The Auckland Board woS? however, not accept patients wither' a recommendation from him. Mr. A. Blackburn. Te Kuiti, si‘4 it was time the Waikato Board too? some part in the campaign to comb’ the frightful disease. It might be inexpensive question to provide radism here, but it should not be forgotten that the Waikato was the fourth largest hospital in the Dominion. oi>. out ol seven cancer patients died, anf ; everything should be done by hospi s boards to reduce the growth of jjj, scourge. It was decided to support thj Director-General's recommendation