THE POOR NATIVES.
MORTALITY ON THE RAND.
MEDICAL SERVICE INADEQUATE.
[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 8.10 a.m.) Johannesburg, .June 13.
The Government Director, of Native Labor, reporting on the high mortality in the Rand mines, states that the medical service is shockingly inadequate. Doctors refuse to pay night visits, however serious the case. Doctors attend the mine hospitals for an hour daily, and the natives are examined at the rate of one per minute.
The Director recommends Government action.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 34, 14 June 1913, Page 5
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81THE POOR NATIVES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 34, 14 June 1913, Page 5
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