THE WHITE PLAGUE.
It is satisfactory to know that the Public Health Department of New Zealand is making an energetic crusade against consumption. In this connection, a conference is to be bejel in Wellington next week, when the following subjects will be discussed : [Educational: Dealing with the dissemination of literature and the syllabus of lectures on tuberculosis. Administration : What additional measures are necessary, compulsory notification, compulsory detention of refractory patients, prohibition of spitting, consumptives and public conveyances.
Town-planning and condemnation of insanitary areas. Institutional: .Dispensary, .sanatoria, institution for incurables, hospital annexes, and farm colony. Pi-oi'i'ssirmn! ami technical: Tlio rolo and functions of the district health officer*, medical inspector of schools, bacteriologist, district nurses, and sanitnry inspectors. General: Tuberculin treatment, what o«-opeca-t-ion can lie arranged between the J vato philanthropic bodies, food .supply j (particularly milk), etc.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10717, 22 October 1912, Page 4
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136THE WHITE PLAGUE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10717, 22 October 1912, Page 4
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