RELIEF MAN’S DEATH
Allegation That Doctors Declined to Attend By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, January 31. An allegation that though four doctors in the city were telephoned they all declined to attend a sick relief worker, was made by a relief workers’ deputation to the Minister of Finance, Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, to-day. Mr. F. E. Lark, rhe spokesman, said that a fifth doctor went to the man, but demanded his fee first, and other relief workers found 10/- among them. The doctor immediately ordered the man. who was unconscious, to hospital, where he died, and he was buried in a pauper's grave this morning. Mr. Lark said that the case was only one of hundreds. The men asked that the Government should make their organisation a grant to help to provide medical attention and funeral allowances. Doctors were tired of being called out at all hours and never being paid. The man buried to-day was.dead within three hours of being admitted to the hospital, and his life might have been saved.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 109, 1 February 1935, Page 12
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172RELIEF MAN’S DEATH Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 109, 1 February 1935, Page 12
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