THE WHITE PLAGUE.
"If the be3t results are desired we must provide suitable employment for t ose who have been cured," said Dr. Mason, chief health officer, in the course of an address before the Nelson Hospital an 1 Charitable Aid Board on the treatment of persons suffering trom consumption. "The man who has been stricken by this disease, and who has recovered, must forever live in the light of his frailty, and it is for us to secure him an opportunity whereby he may again become a wage-earning individual. This we can do by establishing labour colonies, as tht Government has done at Kerere, where ex-patients are employed in trea-planting. This you can do by setting aside fruit, poultry, or bee farms, where the man or woman who desires to recover his individuality as a working unit in the economic world can take a place. The care, the cure, and the destination of the consumptive is a work to which I have given many years of my life, and I am as firmly convinced now as ever I'was that sanatoria annexes and working colonies are the most powerful factors wherewith to fight the great white plague."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3189, 14 May 1909, Page 4
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197THE WHITE PLAGUE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3189, 14 May 1909, Page 4
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