MINERS’ PHTHISIS.
QUESTION TO BE ASKED. MR. SAMUEL IN THE HOUSE Mr A. M. Samuel, M.P. for the Thames electorate, intends to ask the Minister of Pensions the following question in the House :— “Where there is a conflict of medical opinion in the case of an applicant for a miners’ phthisis pension, and an independent medical board is set up to consider such case, will the Minister of Pensions agree to one medical officer being appointed who will be approved of by the Miners’ Union of Waihi or Thames, or such other union representing the applicant ? Will the Minister also direct that such board shall call as evidence the local medical authority under whose treatment the applicant has been ?” Mr Samuel states that several cases have occurred where applicants have been refused pensions, although highly qualified medical practitioners have definitely diagnosed their cases as pneumoconiosis.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5468, 30 August 1929, Page 3
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145MINERS’ PHTHISIS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5468, 30 August 1929, Page 3
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