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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14839, 17 February 1919, Page 8

Considerable difficulty is being experienced by the Auckland 1 Hospital Board in collecting doctors' fees for visits paid during th© epidemic. When influenza was at its height, the Board arranged to send out doctors in response to calls. These calls came in literally by thousands. It soon became* apV>are"nt tW. many people were merely suffering badly from fright, and iti order to save the doctors' precious time, the Board then sent someone out first to investigate whether the case was urgent or not. Fully 60 per cent, of them were not. and no doctor's visit -was necessary. Even, so, about 6000 visits were paid under this' arrangement. Bills for these visits at the ordinary charge, 7s 6d per visit, have been sent out. and in many cases are being repudiated, some people' claim-] ing that the doctor idid them no good, I or did Hot stay long enough. Others that h© iwas so long coming that they had', in the meantime, secured another medical ntate«