DOCTORS ON STRIKE.
E\'» OF A SYSTEM OK MUNII'IIMX PAYMENT. tiencva, August 23. Fifty-three of the fifty-five doctors in Bellinzona and its stilitirlis have "gone on strike." Tliey are paid by the muni'ei|)al authorities, the salaries ranging from .CI2O to £2nn a year, and by contract must give their services free to poor and rich alike. 'l'lii' tiiHii and its environs are divided into '■medical districts" and the residents pay a small tax to the municipality- for medical assistance. The result in'that a doctor is at the heck and Mil of everyone at all hours of the day and night. '
The doctors have almost unanimously broken their contracts with the VSellinzona authorities, and demand a fixed salary of Eloo a year, and the right of charging fees varying from lid to as to I patients who are'in a position to pay, and special charges for night visits. They agree to attend the poor without
payment. the local authorities will shortly examine the question. All the doctors meantime are charging the usual feci. No other town in Switzerland has this system of municipal doctors.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 259, 26 October 1908, Page 3
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183DOCTORS ON STRIKE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 259, 26 October 1908, Page 3
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