HOSPITAL CONFERENCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 6, 1 July 1911, Page 8

HOSPITAL CONFERENCE

STAMPING OUT CONSUMPTION. ly Megrapk.—Press AssoouMta. Wellington, Friday. There was another discussion at the Hospitals Conference to-day on the treatment of consumptives. A motion by the He v. Mr. Closs (Canterbury) was carried, endorsing the plan of campaign outlined in the last health report, providing for the rigorous enforcement of notification of all forms of tubercular disease, -whole-hearted attempts to-waijirage '•'early" cases to seek treatmenT tne extension of sanatorium accomnlxlation, etc. * A motion bj Mr. Ewing (Dunedin) was also adopted -urging the Government to place such a sum on the Estimates and frame such regulations as will enable hospital boards to endeavor effcctiviily to stamp out ,the " spread of tuberculosis. |

Wellington, Last Night, • The following resolution was unani--1 rnously adopted by the Hospitals Con--3 fercnce to-day in respect of Dr. Valin- " i tine's scheme laid before the conference •> yesterday for medical inspection of J school children: "That this conference 1 considers it advisable that some such '- scheme as that outlined by Dr. Valintine & should be adopted for medical inspection 1 of school children." 9 Other resolutions were adopted as e under: That it is desirable that a j radium institute be established in some 1 suitable place in the Dominion for the treatment of cancer and kindred f diseases; that the law be altered so that i country districts can elect representa- » tives to the board so long as those s elected are qualified by residence in any r part of the hospital district; that the services of assistants in hospital dis- ' pensaries in the four large centres bo > counted as qualification for obtaining J.their certificates as chemists; that four > skilled bacteriologists be appointed, one » at each of the chief hospitals of the " Dominion. [ The conference has concluded.