HOSPITAL CONFERENCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 4, 29 June 1911, Page 2

HOSPITAL CONFERENCE

TREATMENT OF CONSUMPTIVES, i By Telegraph .-Press Asssciation. Wellington, Wednesday. A further lengthy discussion took placfl at the Hospital Conference to-day • on the treatment of consunipties. The following resolution was eventually passed: "That this conference, fully recognising the scourge consumption is to humanity and the laudable efforts of the Health Department in coping with ths disease, begs to assure the Department of its readiness to heartily co-operate in any scheme of a preventive or curative character that the Department may devise." HEALTH OF THE NATIVE RACE. Wellington, Wednesday. A discussion took place on the health ofthe Native race. Mr. Powell (Waipiro) moved: (1) That legislation be passed as soon as possible transferring the control of contagious diseases from the Department of Native Affairs to public health officers; (2) that in order to conserve the Maori race the question of maternity and infant mortality be dealt with directly by the responsible officers of hospital boards, and as a further guarantee of this, the Native race should be 'brought into conformity with Europeans under the Registration Act, and this should be applicable, not only to death, but to births and marriages; (3) that nurecs should work among the Maoris in order to instruct them in accordance with European methods of living, both in sanitation and health. After hearing a statement as to what the Department had done and intended doing, the mover withdrew clauses 1 and 3, and clause 2- was carried unani mously.