SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS.
•2SI TAKEN FOR ARMY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON", this day. A return supplied to the .Minister for Public Health shows that 281 doctors have been taken from ordinary practice for purely military duties. The Hon. G. W. Russell saye there is a serious lack of medical men in the country districts, and the Health Department is frequently asked to supply doctors. The Defence Department applied recently for the use of the services of medical men engaged as superintendents of hospitals, but the Health Department felt impelled to oppose in every case, the taking of men engaged in this important civilian service, and liad to ask in every instance where a military officer employed in tlio public service is taken for military duty, that the Defence Department shall return another doctor in his place.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 244, 12 October 1918, Page 4
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136SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS. Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 244, 12 October 1918, Page 4
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