SOMETHING FOR NOTHING
LONDON, Sept. 17 If all the applications made in Glasgow for specacles were genuine, then all he could assume was that the population was going blind, said Sir William Marshall, chairman of the Lanark County Executive Council, at the first annual conference of the Scottish Association of Executive Councils of the National Health Service. Sir William Marshall said that 33,000 people had applied for spectacles since the service began, and many wanted two pairs. A total of 567,000 Scots had applied for prescriptions under the new scheme, which triples the number of former applications. One Scot asked for a prescription of sleeping tablets with ten ounces of whisky. Sir William said that the service cost in Scotland for the first year would be £8,000,000 against the anticipated £6,500,000. Ninety-one per cent., of the Scottish population had now enrolled in the scheme. Only fifty doctors had not entered _ the scheme. n:
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Grey River Argus, 20 September 1948, Page 4
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