CREAM FOR INVALIDS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25269, 22 August 1947, Page 10

CREAM FOR INVALIDS

Sir, —Recently I had occasion to obtain a permit for cream for an invalid. I was informed that my doctor only knew half his business, or else knew his business twice over—l’m not quite sure which—as his prescription for a quarter of a pint of cream a day was arbitrarily cut to three-quarters of a pint a week, and I was told to inform him (the doctor) if he did not like this he could write to Wellington and they might do something about it. Can you inform me if Earl McCready had to go to all this trouble to obtain his supply of 13 pints a week and if John Charles Thomas had similar success? Can you also inform me for what ailments it is in order for a doctor to prescribe cream and what is the maximum quantity?—Yours, etc., PNEUMONIA. August 15, 1947. [“The inference suggested by the writer was not implied by the reduction in his permit,” said an official reply by the Post and Telegraph Department to the above letter. “The Rationing Controller limits the maximum allowance to threequarters of a pint of cream a week (except for certain specified diseases). This will be increased only on production of an explanatory letter from the medical practitioner concerned, and approved by the controller’s medical advisers.”!