X RAY EXAMINATIONS

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28013, 6 July 1956, Page 15

X RAY EXAMINATIONS

AMENDMENT TO SOCIAL SECURITY REGULATIONS (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON. July 5. Under an amendment to the Social Security Regulations. 1951, which provide for the payment of fees from the Social Security Fund for X-ray diagnostic services rendered by recognised radiologists or hospital boards, regulations gazetted tonight provide that 1 X-ray examinations for the obtaining of medical certificates for production to other persons or routine examinations at the request of an employer are not to be charged to the Social Security Fund. This does not exclude examinations for medical certificates for benefits under the Social Security Act. 1938. or ‘‘sickness benefits” from a friendly society or group examinations apnroved by the Director-General of Health. X-ray examinations or photographs which at present must be made or taken on the written recommendation of a doctor other the radiologist may in future be taken or made on the authority of a medical officer of health. Classes of X-ray examinations for which specified fees are payable under the principal regulations have been extended. Malayan Christian Council The National Council of Churches has made possible the purchase of a cinema generator and projection unit van by the Malayan Christian Council. The unit had been lent to the Malayan council but it had to be purchased if the council wished to continue to use it. The National Council of Churches made this possible and the van is now operating again in the Singapore area. Mr Khoo Si aw Hua. the chairman of the Singapore branch of the Malayan Christian Council, reports that more than 50 persons were baptised into the churches as a result of the showing of Christian films, and a succeeding personal approach, during 1955.