SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS.
RETURN OF MEN FROM FRONT NO APPEAL TO AMERICA. [BT TELEGRAPH-OWN COBBESPOIfDENT.] WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The serious position in many of the outlying districts," was the reason given by Mr. W. T. Jennings, Taumarunni, in a question in the House of Representatives to-day, for a proposal that the Government should take immediate actio;} to invite medical practitioners in America to take up practices in this Dominion. The Minister for Public Health, the Hon. G. W. Russell, replied that arrange. ments were being mpde with the British Medical Association by the Public Health and Defence Departments for the more equitable distribution of medical men in the Dominion, and an endeavour is being made to secure the return, in rotation, to the Dominion of medical men who had been away for some time on active service. Mr. Russell added that the action proposed by Mr. Jennings would be most unfair to medical men who had given their services to the Empire, and it was not considered necessary at present to do as he suggested.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16583, 5 July 1917, Page 6
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