DEARTH OF DOCTORS.
ASSISTANCE FROM AMERICA By Telegraph,—Presi Association. Wellington, Last Night. The suggestion that American doctor* should be imported into New Zealand to All some of the vacancies that have been paused by the war was mentioned nguiti to-day by the Minister for Public Health, who said he had noticed that some medical men were perturbed at the idea of doctors being brought into the country from the United States, and he would like to reassure theni as to tho position. The conditions governing the admission of doctors to practice in New Zealand were governed by the Medical Practitioners' Act, of lflf-1, which provided that, before doctors could practice their profession here they must prove their possession of certain qualifications. The Government had not the least intention of allowing any men who did not possess these qualiacations to go upon 'the medical register in the Dominion. Ho had merely supplied the information asked for by the American University.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1916, Page 4
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159DEARTH OF DOCTORS. Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1916, Page 4
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