IN FAVOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 16, 20 January 1939, Page 9

IN FAVOUR.

HEALTH SERVICE. FREE TREATMENT FOR POOR. CHICAGO DOCTOR'S VIEWS. Kipp medical service for those who r " n «» v»y <i<n-t»!,•«' wiu u favoured by 1)P. David ,T. ph ysiciaii far the city <.f (hica"o. who passed thr..i.|rl, A lick lii „<I t0.,1«y in the Mariposa on holiday trip. I'r. .lon.-, however. does not con-ider It IHM (V-Hlv to HUlkl" sUcl, „ apply to (MPIVOMP ill Il„. coinniiinit v. i i<li mid | „|ikp. m tlu> manner New , " Il:,< «l''cide.l upon. i„ addition. !"• I- -Irnnjfly opposed (o lIIIV system 11l u lui'li doctors liro engaged I, v contract inM.Md of (11l ~ f( . ( ; | >i|^js ' I»'l i«'\ •* tree medical r*p|*\"ice for fli.M,. «!i„ ii fforil to vis a 1,1 ''X pin ilied to-da v. "When n p"nr t n inll v lias ,in i||,i(.r.< i,,' its 1,,,,,,,. lIIIIII.V I'iisiN il will not „ doctor. simply l.ccau«c It hasn't pot tllp niolipv. Soi„«'t lines the | mticnt. may die a, icmili n| il„. ls,i-k. of medical ii 11 put ion. . 11111 "" fl "' 1 l'"t kind of medical service. I'l'ox iilcd t ),«• doctor j* p„id ii fee 1 hi«i« and not on a contrnct oiip. ntlrr a r«»ntrnct #*Vr«t<Mn thorp i< too great. a il,iii:h- of doctors failing to render as full a service as they would if they \vprp |ia i<] purely for tiip work tlipy outhml r»ut. M

Dr. .Tones is originator and nf a b|g civic medical organisat ion in Chicago, a Hchorno that has minco hwn adopted by sevrral other oitio*. With fll assistnlit*, lie has charge of the surgical attention. whenever necesearv. of the 17.000 municipal employees. Mroken backs. legs, fractured skulls and nit kinds of injury suffered liy nipn working on street construction, tunnelling, <1 rninngp and a variety of other city jolts wpm treated free under tlie scheme, Dr. .Tones said. "I liavp skilled industrial surgeons, specialising in this das* of work, in pitch of the wards or district* into which the city Is divided," lie adiled. "Where orpvloufly nn injuipd man ha<l to l>e taken to his family doctor, to-dnv the nearest surgeon under the scheme is culled on to give iinuipdiatp treatment. We handle between nine and ten thousand cftnes a year."