PUBLIC HEALTH REPORT.
SERVICE FOR BACKBOCKS. Speaking generally, reports the Inspector-General of Hospitals in a report presented to Parliament, the hospital system is working well, but its efficiency would be undoubtedly increased if boards would but adopt a comprehensive system of outdoor medical treatment whereby the poorest in the land would receive adequate relief in their own homes. The boarda might very well consider the putting into operation of a subdivised medical service for the benefit of settlers in the more remote country districts, and thus in some measure requite the settlerß for the expense they are put to in maintaining a system in the benefits of which they can hardly participate to the same extent as the town dweller. A subsidised medical service for the backblocks could be put into operation with little or no alteration in our hospital machinery, and, if considered with discretion, it would not prove a costly venture provided that the persons receiving the benefits were made to pay, as is now the case, with patients admitted to our hospitals, | according to their means. I
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 516, 9 November 1912, Page 6
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180PUBLIC HEALTH REPORT. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 516, 9 November 1912, Page 6
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