DEATH CERTIFICATES
AVhether it was the usual practice for resident doctors at public 'hospitals to charge a fee for issuing death certificates in the .case of deaths in these hospitals was an urgent question put by Air. Goosman (Opposition, AValk'ato). The Alinister of Health, Air. Nordmeyer, replied that while it was not the practice to make a charge for death certificates, and he understood under the law it was not Tight to do so, the practice had grown up of making a charge when certificates were required by insurance companies or for some such purpose. The question whether a doctor who was paid by a hospital board or the board employing him should get the fee was one for the board concerned.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 19, 17 October 1942, Page 8
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122DEATH CERTIFICATES Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 19, 17 October 1942, Page 8
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