LABOUR AND THE DOCTORS.
Mr Holland. M.P., was askeJ at his meeting last evening what the Labour Party proposed to recommend concerning the medicil profession. In reply, ha said that his party was strongly in favour of the nationalisation of the profession. The Dominion should be divided into areas and a doctor allotted to each. He was in favour of paying them high salaries, but, in addition to their ordinary duties, they should exercise a sort of supervising control over sanitary arrangements. In Blackball, for instance, the sanitary arrangements were an absolute disgrace to the authorities, and had been largely responsible for the recent outbreak of dipbtheria, and, in these circumstances, he thought that doctors should be invested with power to authoriee the needed improvements.
Be paid a high tribute to the splendid work done by the doctors in Wellintgon during the intiaenza epidemic, and cited the case of a well-known practitioner who got so thoroughly exhausted by the continuous- strain, that he was found in his motor car on the side of the road, soundly asleep.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 1222, 10 June 1919, Page 5
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