MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 249, 9 April 1910, Page 2

MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—An unsigned letter in your issue of the 30th March is so misleading and calculated to cause injury that I must crave a little of your space and also ask you to publish this writer's name. The letter is a scurrilous attempt by underhand insinuations to injure the Northern Oliura Medical Association, of which I have had the honour to bo secretary since its inception. In the first place the "information" he volunteers as to there being two medical districts is untrue; the letter from the Hon. 11. McNab stating that the subsidy was for "The Medical Association (Matiere) to secura the services of an additional doctor for the district." The above i 3 as read from a document open to anyone's inspection. Willi regard to your correspondent's "problem" I would suggest that when such conundrums, being untrue, tend to injure a person's means of livelihood it will bo a greater "problem" to your correspondent to dodge the law of libel. If persons choose to send an indifferent vehicle only capable of five and a-hulf miles an hour on a darlc night with almost useless lamps so that the doctor himself has to supplement them with a hurricane lamp, they had better get a man, who like Paddy's boots, can be sent along the telegraph wire. As a matter of fact, the doctor was not required immediately after the driver started, and I can only conclude that your correspondent's zeal to be vonomous has outrun an already weak and attenuated veracity.—l am, etc., JOHN II LYON, Hon. Sec. N.O.M.A. (We cannot, of course, disclose any correspondent's name without his permission.—Ed. K.C.C.)