DOCTORS’ EPIDEMIC FEES.
iPB> VuhHH Ahbooiatioim I WELLINGTON, April 9
Enquiries made by a reporter to-day elicited the fact that none of the New Zealand doctors who worked on the block' system during the epidemic have been paid by . the Department yet. The position is that, the Wellington doctors deckled to charge the Government £lO 10s p)or day for the period of the block system. The matter was hung up for a long time, and then an offer came from the Minister to pay £7 7s per day. i The local branch of the Medical Association considered and agreed to accept the offer, provided the Government‘paid for the petrol used, and that any medical men put to the expense of hiring cars should be compensated. . It is stated that the doctors here have agreed to work on tlito block system if there is a recurrence of the epidemic, and they also have agreed to standardise the medicines required bysufferers' in* order to simplify the treatment.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1506, 10 April 1919, Page 5
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165DOCTORS’ EPIDEMIC FEES. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1506, 10 April 1919, Page 5
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