MEDICAL FEES
SUBSIDISING DOCTORS NEW SOUTH WALES SCHEME. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, June 20. Hie Minister of Health (Mr R. W. Weaver) announced in the Assembly to-day that the State Government, from July 1, will subsidise doctors who attend indigent persons who are too ill to leave their own homes for hospital treatment. Mr Weaver pointed out that doctors in industrial districts were earning little more than the basic wage owing to the inability of patients in some instances to pay the medical fees due. Precautions will be taken to guard against fraud and imposition.
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Evening Star, Issue 21752, 21 June 1934, Page 9
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96MEDICAL FEES Evening Star, Issue 21752, 21 June 1934, Page 9
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