DOCTORS STARVE IN LONDON

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 66, 9 June 1927, Page 12

DOCTORS STARVE IN LONDON

LOST PRACTICES IN WAR An aged doctor died in a London infirmary recently. But for outside assistance he would have been buried at the expense of the parish. This case was mentioned by Mr. L. H. Carter, secretary of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund, in connection with a statement that: There are at least a dozen respectable medical men who ought to be making a good living, but are now starving. It was stated that a number of doctors between the ages of 50 and 65 who went to the war and lost their practices had not been able to do anything since. “Not long ago,” said Mr. Carter, “I had a middle-aged man here who had not had a meal for two days. He had lost his practice through serving in the war. “Distress among doctors and their dependents has increased very much in the last two years. “111-health and strikes are among the causes of poverty. Many doctors work themselves into their graves. A number worked throughout the general strike without receiving a farthing of payment from their ‘strike’ patients.”