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labor Programme
Placed Before Government
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- MELBOURNE, l, -Tuesday.—A deputation
representing the central executive t
t
-of the. Australian I Labor;; party (Victorian
branch) to-Say, presented to the
Minister lOr Health (Mr. Bowser) recommendations
dealing 'R'ith' the' irifluf
enza< outbreaik made at the recent lialtor
Health Conference. ; Briefly," they were
that no expense 'lie - spared- in lighting
the outbreak: that in all cases contacts
"be isoIated, and families maintained It
needs be^that-som^thing in the nature
o£ a moratorium ,be declkred! in cases i
where the necessities of public health
entail hardship and loss to'Sa section ot
the community; that inoculation be
free; that "medical' and nursing professlong
be niobilised, and "7medical men
placed In charge of certain districts,
under-the control ot central authority,
that, ihe Minister-..tor Health;-fix this
price Of necessary medicines, and lssufc
a list v.of medicines recommended; and
that the advertising: of medicines considered
useless be conderiined; ;
The Minister said that there was no
doubt whatever that the -community was
faced with a situation that might at
any moment develop into ones of the
utmost, gravity. ......
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