AN IMPORTANT SURVEY
INCIDENCE OF TUBERCULOSIS IN NEW ZEALAND COMMITTEE APPOINTED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The personnel of a committee appointed by the Government to investigate the question of tuberculosis in New Zealand on behalf of the recentlyappointed Medical Research Council was announced last evening by the Director-General of Health and chairman ,of the council, Dr M. H. Watt. The members of the committee are as follows: — Dr T. W. Johnson, Auckland (chairman). Dr W. Gilmour, pathologist, Auckland Hospital. Dr Chisholm McDowell, tuberculosis officer, Auckland Hospital Board. Dr T. R. Ritchie, Health Department, Wellington. Dr H. B. Turbott, Health Department, Hamilton. The committee will make a statist!- , ’ cal survey of the incidence of tuberculosis in New Zealand. It will also investigate the problem of tuberculosis among Maoris, silicosis as a factor in tuberculosis, and in association with the Department of Agriculture, the prevention of tuberculosis of bovine type in human beings.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1938, Page 6
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153AN IMPORTANT SURVEY Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1938, Page 6
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