MEDICAL MEN WASTED.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 March 1917, Page 2

MEDICAL MEN WASTED.

SOUTHERN' DOCTOR'S OPINION'. I A C'hrisfcluuvli doctor* stated the taller _ day that the supply of medical Mien in • Christcliurch has been reduced since the war began by 30 or 40 per cent. There were bitrely enough men eft to CO)',.- with the work. If the health of the public remained fairly gooi they cuii manage the work, but if a., epidemic broke out, or the rata of sickness increased, the situation would become serious. No doubt what obtained in applied to a certain extent to other parts of the Dominion. He believed that thep oaition could be aliovisited considerably. He bhnnod the authorities who are i;csponsible for taking the medical men for the staffing o\ the hospital ships for an undue state of .-iliaii's. "I have had practical experience of what I am talking about," he said. "The stall's of the hospital ships iiire larger than is necessary. There is uO per cent more medical men on boar.l than there is any real need for, or there have .been up .to the present. The consequence is Hint the doctors in some cases teel that not only are they sacrificing practices, hut that they are not able to really help all they could wish to make up for it. Having, much larger staffs of medical men than are necessary 011 the hospital ships means a bit waste." °