A DOCTOR'S REMARKS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 252, 14 March 1913, Page 5

A DOCTOR'S REMARKS.

ALLEGED UXWARRAXTAI3LE INTER FEREXCE.

By Telegraph.—Per Press Association. Rotorua, Last Xight.

Members of the baths staffs are ill a state of. high indignation ill regard to what they consider an unwarrantable interference with .the control of the stall'. On Tuesday the whole of the staff was summoned to the doctor's rooms at the new baths, where they were met by the house surgeon (Dr. Scott) and Dr. Bertram. The house surgeon,- it is stated, made a few remarks about the necessity for the baths being kept scrupulously clean, and then passed 011 to the question of complaints, stating that he had none, but that Dr. Bertram wished to address the staff. Dr. Bertram said that lie had had many complaints as to the manner in which his prescriptions had been carried out. The baths were often not as ordered, and patients were left too much alone. This, the doctor said, would have to be remedied, and if any more mistakes occurred be would make it so rotten that the offender would have to get out: in fact, if the present state of affairs continued, the whole staff would have to get out.

The attendants contend that if complaints were lodged the individual delinquent- should be remanded by the medical ollieer, and not the whole staff lectured by an outsider, They are naturally concerned at the thought that if private practitioners are to be allowed to issue orders in the manner mentioned there will be a conflict of instructions, in which case trouble will arise.