CHARITABLE AID.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15374, 8 August 1913, Page 4

CHARITABLE AID.

PROPOSALS FOR MEDICAL RELIEF. [BY TELEGRAPH.— : ASSOCIATION.] :>. '~■'■: . ■ Wellington, Thursday. The Wellington v Hospital; and Charitable 7 ;: 1 Aid Board to-day adopted a scheme fcr re- j organisation of the oat-patients' depart- /ji ment. ■■ .The report ; ' presented 'by the J| charitable aid superintendent stated : Ml)Jll| That, of the patients at present attending | one-fourth are properly eligible for y treatment at the out-patients' department;s|| .■.(2) one-fourth - are .attending there - i&lpi properly, being able to provide thumselvea 4: with such medical treatment by the ordin- . v : ary channels; (3) one-half are forced into .A the out-patients' department because there ;' is no medical aid Available between that ".'•;-J and what is to them a prohibitive '• price •'$ and :■ that : provided free by the boardi^g^^ The -superintendent recommended that the ; out-patients' department "be reorganised so as .to provide : (1) For the relief of the board from attendance on per- $M sons who are able to provide themselves •; : with medical aid of the kind' implied through the ordinary channels; (2) isr the entirely : free treatment of those who are .-v indigent or !in ,"distressed,: circumstances; (3) for an agreement with the medical proSession whereby through the extended ftp- > plication ci the outdoor medical service . ;• medical aid may be available to the poorer, but not indigent, classes at ■ rates within their ability to pay. ■ - '4Sfl The board adopted -the report. ~?'3ll§t