MATTERS FOR REFORM

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27073, 23 June 1953, Page 10

MATTERS FOR REFORM

DR. ULRIC WILLIAMS’S VIEWS

“MEDICAL AND FINANCIAL INEPTITUDE”

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 22. Dr. Ulric Williams, of Wanganui, today told the Consultative Committee on Hospital Reform that it was not hospital administration that needed overhauling—it was medical and financial ineptitude. He said that “the basic and incomprehensible shortcomings” in actual medical policy and a monetary system founded on “debt, taxation, and usury” were the factors needing reform. “Till both these influences have been brought under control, questions of administration are irrelevant,” he said. “Orthodox medical men, though they claim to be authorities, do not know what disease is and hpw it is brought about. They know nothing of natural or spiritual cures. “All they can do is to mask or hide some of the evidence of unhealthy living. When unhealthy living stops, disease symptoms mostly disappear.” He said that if people were enabled and encouraged to live healthily, three out of every four of those people admitted to hospital today would not have to be admitted at all. . ,

He said that hdspitals would always be in trouble if the present system of collecting money by debt—taxation and interest —was continued. But a system based on credit and dividends would result in a period of unprecedented prosperity for New Zealand.