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" DOCTOR y. POISONERS." TO THE EDITOH. Sir,—You deserve the thanks of the community for your able and truthful leader in this morning's News, every sentence of which I endorse, Wc all know that doctors' charges are exorbitant, and that they, as a class, though they have many opportunities, do not always show a little of the nulk of human kindness. The newspapers arc fall of reports ol charges of manslaughter, but how seldom do we hear of similar charges being brought against doctors ? Yet we heir of fatalities caused by sponges being sewed up inside human bodies after operations, and by blood-poisoning caused by the carelessness of that fraternity 1 Some tune ago I wrote to another piper advocating the dispens iry system as in operation in the Old Country, but my letter did no', elicit any public co.niiient. I should like to read an article from your able pen, or the opinion of some of your numerous readers 011 this subject.—l am, etc., PostTi, VTA. New Plymouth, August 2:!, I'JO!
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81831, 25 August 1906, Page 2
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172CORRESPONDENCE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81831, 25 August 1906, Page 2
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