HARDSHIPS OF SICKNESS

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4489, 8 November 1922, Page 2

HARDSHIPS OF SICKNESS

MORE EXPENSIVE TO SHE SICK UNDER PROHIBITION.

If Prohibtion comes the cost of stimulants will be a very serious item. Whew ! Ten-andsix a time. Wc do not tihink tlie doctors of this Dominion want Prohibition. The medical profession in New Zealand has always upheld the highest tradtions of its class, and has never allowed personal profit to come before the public welfare, In America, on the other hand, we are told that the doctors supported prohibition vigorously, .because of the tremendous income it would bring them by issuing prescriptions for alcohol. Events have certainly justified their optiniism, for the business of “ prescriptioneering ” has proved very profitable indeed. The point that interests you as a voter is that if prohibition is applied in New Zealand, you will have to pay a doctor ten-and-six every time you want a shilling’s worth of brandy or a bottle of wine for a sick person. For the chemist dare npt sell to you without a prescription.

And no matter how suddenly or seriously the person is taken ill—you’ll have to FIND your doctor before you can get your prescription. At certain times of; the day it. is difficult to find any medical man at homo. There may be serious and dangerous delay. If you want stimulants for the sick to be accessible in emergency—vote Restoration and National Continuance ! !p