HOSPITAL CONFERENCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 5, 30 June 1911, Page 5

HOSPITAL CONFERENCE

m> ... A HOME FOR WASTERS. , By Telegraph.—Press Aseeclution. Wellington, lesterday. To-day the Hospitals Conferenee passed the following resolution: That it is desirable that an Act be passed to provide >State farms, industrial home* or other suitable places of healthy restraint for the enforced detention of coitirnied drunkards or other self-indulgents who, having a wife and family, incapacitate themselves from wage-earning or spend an undue share of their earnings on themselves, thus leaving the maintenance of wile and family to charitable aid board?. That the time spent in such. homes be in proportion to the number of convictions, and that the earnings of such individuals be handed to the boaras for the benefit of the families. It was also decided to urge the Government to take more active measures for arresting deserters ot wives and children, and parents of illegitimate children, and setting them to remunerative work. RELIEF FOR SETTLERS. 1 MATERNITY WARDS. THE CURFEW LAW. Wellington, Last Night. The Hospital Conference to-night passed resolutions as follows: "That, with a view of affording relief to settles* in the outlying districts, and to facilitate the training of maternity nurses, this conference considers it advisable that maternity wards be attached o all country hospitals of 20 beds or undcij that the Health Act be amended to define who is responsible for burial in cases of death where there is not sufficient money and no relations; that section 85 of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, be amended, giving boards more authority in regard to the committal of children to industrial schools, by receiving notice of intention to bring such children before the Court, so that evidence may be adduced, if possible, of the ability of near relative* to contribute towards the cost of maintenance; that the powers of boards be enlarged to enable them to reclaim and educate children living in evil environments; that the (iovernment be recommended to alter the Old Age Pensions Act in the direction of providing that when an old ago pensioner is convicted a second time for drunkenness, his pension certificate be handed to the Charitable Aid Board of the district in which the offender resides; that the Government he asked to introduce legislation whereby what is known in somevcountries as the 'Curfew law,' may be enforced in this Dominion."