COPING WITH EPIDEMICS.
HOSPITAL BOARD'S GRIEVANCE. , By Telegraph.—Press Association. Gisborne, Nov. 20. Regarding complaints made by the exMinister of Public Health as to the inadequate arrangements made by the Waiapu Hospital Board in cunnecnon with the Te Araroa epidemic, inemDers of the board state that a deputation waited on the department in May, 1917, and had since frequently requested a Ministerial visit to look into the situation, without result. The board considered it was the Government's auty to send trained medical orderlies to cope with the situatioy ofr the recurring epidemic, which was doubtless due to the conditions under which the live, and whilst the State passed legislation requiring the settlers to provide proper quarters for shearers, it failed in its supervision of the Maori settlements, and the board considered it unfair that the cost of coping with these epidemics should fall on the shoulders of Jburopean settlers. Effective measures should be taken to stamp out the disease.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1919, Page 5
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158COPING WITH EPIDEMICS. Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1919, Page 5
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