STATE TO SUBSIDISE DOCTORS
Attendance on Indigent
Persons
DECISION IN NEW SOUTH WALES
By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.
(Received June 20. 7.10 p.m.)
Sydney, June 20.
The Minister of Health; Mr. R. W. D. Weaver, announced in the Assembly today that the State Government, from July 1, will subsidise doctors who attend indigent persons too ill to leave their homes for hospital treatment. Mr. Weaver pointed out that doctors in industrial districts were earning little more than a basic wage owing to the inability of patients in some instances to pay medical fees. Due precautions would x be taken to guard against fraud or’imposition.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 226, 21 June 1934, Page 9
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