Work for Consumptives.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXIV, Issue 3761, 21 April 1908, Page 3

Work for Consumptives.

By Telegraph. —Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. In reference to the telegram from Auckland relative to the employment of consumptives the Hon. G. Fowlds, Minister for Public Health, informed a Press reporter that the employment would be in connection with the tree planting operations of the Lands Department. Ex-patients would be provided with a separate camp, and be paid the ordinary rate of wages given by the Department for labour at treeplanting. They would thus have the benefit of the open air life until they got hardened up, and were able to go to other employment. The great drawback in connection with patients coming from the Cambrdge Sanatorium was that they could not go back to ordinary office occupations, and if they did probably before long they lost the benefits they had derived from the sanatorium treatment. The experiment would be tried first in the neighbourhood of Whakarewarewa where tree planting operations were now being carried on. When the South Island sanatoria were in operation the same facilities for employment at tree planting would no doubt be made available.