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DEPUTATION TO A MINISTER.
QUESTION OF COMPULSORY NOTIFICATION.
(Received Last Night, tf.lo o'clock.) SYDNEY, June 12. A deputation representing the National Association for the Prevention and Cure of Consumption asked tihe Hon. Mi* Flowers, Minister for Public Health, to introduce a Bill making the notification of consumption compulsory, «and to give an annual grant of £2OOO for the establishment of auti-tubercukras dispensaries and for the dissemination of information concerning the disease.
Mr Flowers said he was in perfect agreement with the objects of the Association. He was taking all precautions to protect healthy lives from contamination; but he was not convinced of the necessity for compulsory notification. He did _ not think he was justified in practically ostracising whole families, or causing additional suffering to consumptives themselves. He favoured every precaution short of what he considered a refinement of cruelty, but did not favour a general notification, though it might be the means of stamping out a disease of years.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10261, 13 June 1911, Page 5
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168CONSUMPTION Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10261, 13 June 1911, Page 5
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