HEALTH INSURANCE
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Noted Authority to Visit New Zealand
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AUCKLAND, Last Night. With the purpose of assisting ia the development of a satisfactory scheme of national health insurance Sir Henry Britten Brackenbury is coming to New Zealand at tho invitation of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Assoeiation and will arrive at Auckland carly in September. Sir Henry, who is a noted British authority on the medical side of national health insurance, will spend about three months in the Dominion. While
much of his time will be occupied in discussing the scheme with the medical prof ession it iB hoped he will consent to give a certain number of public lectures in the main centres. Numerous articles on social insurance, mental deficiency and educational and public health administration have been published by Sir Henry in recent years. He is vice-president and was formerly chairman of. the Council of the British Medical Assoeiation. He is also chairman of the Council of the Institute of Medical Psychology, vi«e-presidont of the Central Assoeiation for Mental Welfarc, a member of the General Medical Council aud a member of the Advisory Committee to the Ministry of Health. Sir Henry haa been aotive in medical, educational and local body work for over 40 yeara. He was in general practica in Hornsey from 1892 until 1927, being also Mayor of that municipality in 1895 and 1896 and an alderman until' 1930, His membership of the Council of the British Medical Assoeiation dates from 1914 and he has flerved on numerous eommittees of that body since 1924. He has been a member of the Middlesex Couuty Educational Committee and was president from 1914 . to 1918 and vice-president from 1918 to 1930 of the Assoeiation of Education Committeos of England and Wales. Sir Henry is also chairman of the' governing boards of several schools and is an honorary freeman and liveryman of th« Company of Stationers and Newspapei Makers. \
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 141, 2 July 1937, Page 2
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