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Free Medicine Plan For Commonwealth Attacked by Doctors

MELBOURNE, Rec. 1 a.m. June 11. A free medicine scheme would cost £5,000,000 yearly within three years and not £2,000,000 as claimed by the Minister of Health, Senator N. E. McKenna, said the secretary of the British Medical Association. Dr C. H. Dickson. He said that the Government was doing little about tubercolosis prevention but last week “in the middle of the night ” passed a Free Medicine Bill. New Zealand handed out free medicine and much of it “ finished in rubbish tins,” he said, and added that if the Government would give doctors £2,000,000 yearly for tuberculosis prevention, the disease could be wiped out of the country in 15 years.

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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26485, 12 June 1947, Page 5

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Free Medicine Plan For Commonwealth Attacked by Doctors Otago Daily Times, Issue 26485, 12 June 1947, Page 5

Free Medicine Plan For Commonwealth Attacked by Doctors Otago Daily Times, Issue 26485, 12 June 1947, Page 5

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