D.T. HOSPITALS.
Tn the Editor. Sir,—Tn a recent issue of your paper the following paragraph appeared:— "The Gorernment will find the money to any hospital for the purpose of erecting a special ward for the treatment of delirium tremens patients." Another paragraph:—"The Health Department have sent one of their officers to trace the source of an outbreak of typhoid fever, and will take drastic steps to stamp out the disease." Well, why not send the Public Health Officer to trace the cause of the delirium tremens eases and take drastic steps to stamp out the cause? Why not prosecute the sellers of an article that causes such cases, the samo as they do with a milkman who sells -milk that is dangerous to the community? Tf any of your readers read the account of 'the last meeting of the Wellington Hospital Board, where a nurse was just saved from being throttled by a D.T. patient, and a woman at that, they will probably join with me and say, "Wipe out the source of the disease, and make our men and women free from such attacks."—l am, 0. D. SOLE, Stratford, June 17.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 302, 18 June 1912, Page 6
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192D.T. HOSPITALS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 302, 18 June 1912, Page 6
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