DOCTORS AND WAR WORK
WOHD TO PARLIAMENTARIANS. Speaking at yesterday's, delegation from tho Second Division League to Parliament, Dr. Paterson, South Canterbury, said that a committee of the conference had discussed with the executive of the British Medical Association certain matters in whioh the Second Division men were vitally interested. ' They found that in January ]ast the Minister of Health had met a deputation from the British Medical Association, which had suggested to him that an advisory board should be set up to deal with the question of utilising for the public benefit" the services of the medical profession. Tlie doctors had voluntarily offered their services, and considered that the Government would be well advised to accept the offer, tut the reply was that the Government was getting enough medical men at present voluntarily. The Department preferred to go along in the present haphazard way, and one result of that was that some districts in New Zealand were snort of medical men.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3142, 21 July 1917, Page 6
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162DOCTORS AND WAR WORK Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3142, 21 July 1917, Page 6
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