PITHY PARAGRAPHS.
INSURANCE AGAINST SICKNESS.
"There is in New Zealand much misery and trouble," said Dr. Newman at Wellington last week, "and every year sees an increase in the hospital and charitable aid rates. There must be a policy of uplift and n stricted inquiry into the causes of poverty and wretchedness. During the last session the pensions to the aged had been increased, and pensions had been granted to epidemic widows. But why stop at that. Why not pensions to widows of men who died from cancer and consumption. A pension had been granted to widows with children, but they did not get so much as the epidemic widows. They must readjust their ideas on these questions. The old notion was that the weakest should go to the wall, but different notions prevailed now, and the State should see that the lot of innocent
sufferers should be made easier. There was insurance against death and accident. Why not insurance against sickness?
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Northern Advocate, 17 December 1919, Page 1
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