DOCTORS AND FRIENDLY. SOCIETIES.
(Peb United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, March 2. At the Hospital Board to-day there was a discussion regarding tl\e system of friendly Eocieties paying half fees for their members while in the hospital. Some local doctors recently criticised this system, holding that half fee was not onough, and Mr M'Leod, seoretr.ryl of the Manchester Unity of Oddfollovys, replying to those criticisms at the Hospital Board, of which he is a member, stated that friendly societies recently decided to open a dispensary and tried to arrange with surgeons for treatment without medicines. They offered 14s per member. Tho local section of the British Medical Association wanted it fixed at 16s, and when applications were invited outside Auckland the" local doctors met and passed resolutions pledging themselves to do all in their power to prevent any medical practitioner being appointed to the position of surgeon;to tho united friendly societies, and that they would ostracise any medical m.in .who accepted such a position.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 12601, 3 March 1903, Page 6
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