TUBERCULAR TREATMENT

Taranaki Daily News, 27 November 1926, Page 10

TUBERCULAR TREATMENT

POOLING OF SANATORIA. . t Ur Telegraph.—Pres* Association. Dunedin, Nov. 28. The Hospital Board received last night a lengthy letter from Dr. Falconer concerning the treatment of tuberculosis and the desirability of pooling all sanatoria, the cost of treatment to be borne by a special flat rate over the Dominion. He pointed out that the new Act making as “the law of settlement” three months’ residential qualification for admission to hospitals and sanatoria, instead of 12 months, as previously, adversely affected the financial position of the North Canterbury Board, the Otago Board, and the combined hospital boards administering the santoria of the South Island. Incidentally, the Dunedin hospital was the hardest struck of all the general hospitals in the Dominion, the local ratepayers being called on to carry an unfair burden in providing accommodation for patients who were essentially, though not legally, residents of outside hospital districts. To carry out the Dominion scheme, he suggested four district tuberculosis boards, with a national board, having seven members representing the boards, and three representing the Government, such board being responsible for finance and policy.

The matter was referred to a committee, it being also decided to point out to the department the way in which the new legislation affected Otago.