MEDICAL WAR SERVICES.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 June 1917, Page 2

MEDICAL WAR SERVICES.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, June 16. The New Zealand branch of the 'British Medical Association, being desirous of providing a sufficient number of doetors to satisfy the requirements of the military and civil authorities during the war, appointed a committee representative of the profession throughout New Zealand to draw up a proposal to submit to the Government. The committee made a series of tentative proposals which) the Government could not accept in their entirety. The committee has further considered the matter during the last few days, after Hearing the views of the "Minister of Public Health, and has now made further recommendations, the principal of which are: That an advisory board consisting of six members of the Medical Association be set up to which the military and civil authorities can apply from time to time for advice and assistance; that medical men be enrolled with a view to their being called up compulsorily as required for military service, provided the men called have the right to appeal to the Advisory Board; that ifcsbe a condition of registration that the services of the applicant be placed at the disposal, firstly, of the Minister of Defence, secondly, of the Minister of Public Health. . The committee cannot agree to the proposal of the Minister jof Public Health that the profession be mobilised for the purpose of transferring medical men from districts already adequately supplied to districts where there is a scarcity of practitioners, as tliis is treating the profession in a way entirely different from other classes of the community. i