RETURNED SOLDIERS COMPLAINTS
• OFFICIAL DENIAL. Last night the Minister of Public Health was -able to speak further on tho subject of the 'complaints which were made by the deputation which waited'on Dr. Thacker, M.P., and reported in The Dominion yesterday. There was only one case in the list given by Dr. Thacker in which the Health Department was concerned, and that was in regard to tho treatment of a man named William Angrove. Mr. Russell telegraphed to Dr. Herbert, medical superintendent at Rotorua, during yesterday, asking for full particulars in connection with Angrove's case. _ He last evening received the following reply:— "Tho statement is absolutely untrue. Angrove arrived on tho evening of January 17. He was at once admitted and seen by the assistant medical officer, and told to attend my usual m'orning inspection of all new patients at 9.30 next morning. He did not appear, and I am since informed returned to Auckland next day. Every new patient is medically examined at once, and starts treatment next morning. ,No patient is ever told in any .circumstances.. to wait another day. As the men wont off with his and our papers, I have no record as to who sent him."
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2677, 25 January 1916, Page 6
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200RETURNED SOLDIERS COMPLAINTS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2677, 25 January 1916, Page 6
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