Diagnostic Clinics Not Favoured
The establishment of diagnosis clinics to enable the public to have examinations at least every two years for the control of serious diseases such as cancer and tuberculosis was proposed by the Thames Hospital Board to the annal conference of New Zealand hospital boards. The remit was lost after Dr. P. Stanley Foster (Christchurch) and Dr. J. Cairney (Wellington) told the conference that they considered the value of such examinations would be questionable and that the cost in time anci money would be enormous.—P.A,
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22940, 7 May 1949, Page 6
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