MEDICAL ADVICE FREE
Masterton Hospital Move PAY FOR OWN MEDICINE Palmerston North, August 28. A suggestion that as there was now a resident doctor at the Masterton Hospital an outpatient day should be Instituted in I order to enable advice and medicine to be given to patients on payment of half-a-crown, was received at the Walrarapa Hospital Board to-day from the Womens National Welfare League. Dr. Hosking said that idea was practical, but It depended on how far the board was prepared to go. Either they 'would have to establish a dispensary or meet the cost of the prescriptions through a chemist. There would not, he thought, bo a large demand for the service, and it would not pay the board to establish a dispensary. At the present time no needy person was obliged to go without assistance for arrangements bad been made by the board whereby he could treat patients whose medicine would be paid for by the board if essential. Dr. Sharpe suggested that free service and advice should be given one day a week, the patients so treated to pay for their own medlilne. He moved in this direction, and the motion was carried.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 286, 29 August 1931, Page 15
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