The Daily News. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8. THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81884, 8 November 1906, Page 2

The Daily News. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8. THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

StW ZEALAND has enjined t;ie repu- j »al:on, supposed by Ui»- veiy besu e V ' - ] dtnce —that ct —[or manv i u\.i> pa-t, it being- the. healuiies>l Civi|i-vLI ct.i.ihiy on llje liici' "i tiic eaiih. it had the huvc-si oeain rate betoie sii( t i a as tin- ilealtii iJ'.-par.int nL \\a* i! t/i aiently b-'C.iiiie ncces-aiy to give , i-iik- vi-jy de.ciV.i.g ne.dical men Kiort- or luci.it vc billets and Uj .aake a aiidjbo.eih (.1 .leaidi, Wiiicn ..uoady exifJteJ in gi.«>'.r drt,Me iiian . iiVWiiCl- cl e. 1 knee lite Department, New Zealand boa&tui a wisiie

ago ihat it v...s toe lusi countiy in die w.iild :-) have a Mir.is.er for Pub nc llealta. 11', li.fore the appo i;tmeiit of uie mcessaiy piinple-cnasers, the health of the ttiiiuiiuu iy was veiy good indeed—in fact the best in tile woiid —why pay a very large sum to pretend it pos-dj c to make the best better ?

TIIERF. have been many evid-nces, that in order to prove the u'ul.ty ol 'lie Department, that ji= chief panjan tliums de-ire t>> mil die country. If the ord nary dermis who are stipendiary micn>be chasers, knew the awrlui tilings they tell ilie people about btiore there was a department, why did they not save ilie healthie-t people .n the world fiom the horrors they lalk about? Do the Health Officers who relinquished unremunerative piact'ces in order to s,ive the :ivc'r of the nat on, believe themselves better aide now to save the said liver than the private practitionersAl-o, .'o they believe that the piivate doctois, krowing- full well that the liver- of the healthie-t people n the wor.d are n ;i bad Matt-, hold their peace and do not te 1 the diead tiutli? Do they believe that w.ihoat the expenditure oi an enormous sum of money en the liver of the people, the liver wouldn't be just as well looked after? Do they be leve that the swatting up of the works of eminent spec alists and tae firing of the sa d works off ai the people from the public platfoim is worth many thousand a year?

Do they believe thai they saved the country from smallpox, and do ih«-y believe then: was ever any in tae colony? A *O, if they b"li«'V«that the re was Mnaiip<>x and plague airiving in the oumry, do they be* 1 e\ e that ihe port health oliicers mace dr. ditcoveiy wiihout the terrible ma ch'nery of the Depaitment behind, or do they believe that ihe port oJiicers let the pimple througa without seeing :t? Have the heath olhcers >uch an opportunity of >ludy ng the hea.ih cundit'on-s of die pcv.pV as the pnva e practitioners,. and Jo Mao.iJ l*e;*Uln oilicers h-'ar of nf' Sicd areas and tail to go 10 them b< cause, <v< n heath oliiccr-> aie not immune from epidemic diseases?.

Do the Health Department Inspector' '.eaily inspect, and if they do inspect, dues tin- Health Dcpat>ni<'nt adven se ihat u has discoveied a measle or does it hide Us mude-i head 1 ke the -tipendiaty violet it is? Do we not pay to) much for our miciobe-chasirig and the opinion- or eminent nun heaid and -.niough tut mouih oi hsv er lights? Can we lead or mu-u we be lectured at ? Was ail our food po; MOll b' toii-- the Health Department iiicitenaiiM d. and il ;i wa- wny ciid net the private piactnioners who are now -lipcndiaiy bacci.li hungers say so and -ave the people in the wo;Id? Ii was tiieir duty from th*-- pioiuund depths of the.r knowhdge to dUc.oae the contents of the coiat.iuency of pca-llour.

1 ULV night have quoted the "Lancet ' at tne >tiecc coineis and tired oil slab> of die Uintah Pnarmacopaea in ihe public paik". Jiut ihey diet noi. the b gger til'- expuiseh ot tu«' Ilea.th Depaitmem tiie greater tile quot.>ti«ns iiom die woiks uf eminent. specialises, s mpldied. ol cour-e, for the under•lanui.ig of ihe o-h'ii.al publ c. 1 lie gi'vai and gloriuus DepaiUnent cs pecta ly dev.-ed fur Uie cohmrvaUon -I the heaiiti ol the healthie-i peuple in the woiid has had its biuaiy al. round. it .s to be confidently expected thai the Chief lJeaiUi Uincer i and his giiied assistam .uid the whole • v bfin : ' in the Department will discover a nucroue pieity soon and will gi\e several thousand pounds worth of valuable .nformauon from the uliiitisn Medical Jouina/' : or the "Scientific American. ' It may also be conlidenJy expected 'drat the besi nealth in die woild w.ll be one hundred per cent, better now the expanse* ol the Department have gone up a :ev. thousands. This countiy's ex pc,ts would lather ;>peud money on atiay boi = than upun roads. The ii«-alth Depaument .5 not a fanatic. It merely leeds the credulity ol Me peopie.. like any other old tuhunga—to keep billet.