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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 44, 3 November 1904, Page 18

A Chnstchurch deputation waited on Mr Seddion at Wellington on Monday, and asked for a subsidy for a nursing home ior consumptives at New Brighton The Premier, in the course of his reply, said he would discuss the matter with the Minister of Public Health It seemed to him that we ought to strike at the root of the evil, but that we were only playing with it Not a steamer came to New Zealand now that did not brin°consumptive patients. Jn one steamer that arrived the other day there were three or four, a nd two of them in a very advanced stage. Our Colony was now beting made the dumping ground for Great Britain and even further afield. Were we going to spend our money in State hospitals and curative institutions for them ? The matter was very serious, and should be dealt with m a comprehensive way, and at once, otherwise we should have New Zealand in the same position as Swit/zerland where nearly all the iamilies were tainted with consumption. Unless we took action we should be in the same position as some of the healthiest parts of Europe that had become saturated wiUi phthisis. He had seen reports from the health officers, and they were something alarming. The disease was coming not from ourselves, and, he repeated, that it was alarming.