SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS.
NEARING THE MINIMUM.
CONFERENCE TO BE‘HELD.
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
DUNEDIN, This Day
Respecting the shortage of medical men for service within tire Dominion, the Hon. Mr. Russell. Minister for Public Health, proposes to call a con, fereiicc of representatives of his Department and the British Medical Association to meet at Wellington shori„ 1 y to discuss what steps should be taken to organise the profession fof the purpose of adequately supplying military and civilian needs.
A departmental report on the subject shows that there are 546 doctors in the Dominion in private and institutional practice and 237 engaged in military work, including 190 at the front. Altogether it is reported that there are only 26 doctors in excess °* the minimum number considered ■witiß in the limits of safety.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 March 1917, Page 2
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