TOPICAL READING.
THE CURED CONSUMPTIVE,
It is eminently desirable, on the broad grounds of public health, that I curable cases of consumption should De thoroughly cured, but there is obviously a limit to the number of philanthropic agencies which the State is able to carry on at a financial loss \ The proposed camps, therefore, must only be regarded as experiments. says the Christchurch "Press." If they are recognised by the inmates as merely a physically probationary stage, before beginning the battle of life anew, they will serve an admirable purpose; but if they encourage loafing and the performance of the"Government stroke" they will have to go. There is the moral as well as the physical health of the community to consider, and any institution or system that de-
stroys self-reliance, after self-re-liance has become possible, does far more harm than good, no matter how benevolent its object may be.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3116, 16 February 1909, Page 4
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149TOPICAL READING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3116, 16 February 1909, Page 4
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