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Hokitika Guardian, 12 September 1929, Page 8

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‘BILKED’ DOCTORS. TWO MOTORISTS PAY OUT OF 29. MANCHESTER, July 22. Further examples of the. “bilking” of doctors by'injured motorists were given to me to-day by practitioners attending the British Medical Association conference here. “I was once told in a lordly fashion by a man riding in a very expensive limousine that it was not usual for him to be asked for ready money,” said one doctor. “I sent a bill in three years ago, and I am still waiting.” Another said that the callousness with which motorists disregarded their obligations was making doctors very chary T of going out to such cases. And yet another doctor told me: I was called out to 29 motoring cases in one week. Only two of them paid me. Attending to them made it necessary for me to neglect the needs of my r ordinary patients, who are honest people and meet their obligations. SLUR ON' WOMEN. LONDON, July 22. Members of Kensington Borough Council complained at a meeting of the, council yesterday that a statement in the report of the Medical Officer of Health for last year casts a slur on unmarried shop assistants and domestic servants living in the borough. The report said •• The district is one in which there is a large number of unmarried female shop assistants and domestic servants, in these circumstances, it is unavoidable that Kensington should have higher illegitimate birth and death rates than are usual in other areas. Councillor Glinwood said that this attack on unmarried shop assistants should be referred back to the Public Health Committee for investigation and report. “It is” he said, “an insult to the large number of young women in South Kensington." Councillor Little declared that women would feel th» omtement very deeply. Councillor Bird ’said that an attack had been made on the Medical Officer for Health. The attack was unjustified. It was simply a statement or facts. 720 MILES A DAY. ! : LONDON, July 22. Miss Violette Oordery, the wellXnown motorist, and her younger sistei Evelyn, aged 18, yesterday after 2u uay completed 16,U0l) miles on Brooklands track, vveybridge, Surrey, at an average speed of a mile a minute. Their ambition' is to cover 80,000 miles in 30,006 /minutes. They . are driving 12 hours a day, taking turns of three hours.' Miss Violette Cordery told a Daily Mail reporter yesterday: The difficulty is in getting to sleep after driving at speed for so long a time. When you I ‘put your head on the pillow you still seem to be travelling. We have both awakened during the night imagining that we are still speeding round the track. We are doing a little over 720 miles a day which represents nearly a journey to Scotland and back. WIFE’S BEAUTY WAY. MANCHESTER, July 22. Dr. A. F. MacCallan, of the Westminster and Royal Eye Hospitals, told members of the British Medical Association at one of its meetings to-day how he restored beauty to a young wife. He said in the course of a paper on the effect of teeth on eyesight that buried fragments of teeth and even small deposits of tartar might lead to iritis (inflammation affecting the sight). A married woman of 25 consulted him for a bad complexion. She was cured by the removal of crowned teeth qear which abscesses had formed. Dr. MacCallan continued: She is one of the most grateful patients I ever had. When I saw her recently all the spots had gone from her face. She had regained a beautiful complexion after I had advised her to have expert dental treatment.