SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS
AUCKLAND HOSPITAL : BOARD'S POSITION. : . By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, July 7. At a meeting of the Hospital Board discussion took placo in regard to tlie shortage of doctors owing to ,so many medical men offering thoir services to the Defeiico Department. The chairman. stated that at the present , timo tliero were only two junior doctors in residence at the Hospital, instead of five, while the two remaining had also volunteered for servico at the front. There was a danger, he. understood, of the 28 medical students going' -up for tho next examination at the Dunedin University being absorbed for military service,' and accordingly lie had telegraphed to the Inspector-General of Hospitals placing before him the Hospital's need of juniors. There was also a need for doctors to administer anaesthetics. '
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2508, 8 July 1915, Page 6
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131SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2508, 8 July 1915, Page 6
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