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MEDICAL BENEFITS NUMBER OF INQUIRIES HEALTH OFFICE ADVICE (By Telegraph.—special to Times) AUCKLAND, Thursday Telegraphed instructions to district medical officers of health that they are not to reveal the numbers of applications received for inclusion in the Government’s medical treatment scheme were issued by the Health Department yesterday. The scheme was announced by the Government to have come into force last Saturday, an earlier announcement having mentioned that 1,000,000 cards had been printed to enable it to operate. In view of public interest in the project and the official attitude of the New Zealand division of the British Medical Association, inquiries have been made in most centres as to the number of applicants for benefits and of doctors who have agreed to co-operate. When this information was again sought yesterday, the district medical officers quoted the instruction they had received from Wellington not to make any disclosures. It was stated that any announcements to be made would be issued by the Health Department in
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21363, 6 March 1941, Page 9
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