THE INSURANCE ACT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 41, 13 February 1912, Page 6

THE INSURANCE ACT.

CHANCELLOR GENTLY CHIDES

THE DOCTORS

UNIONISTS’ INHUMANITY. ' (Received 13, 12.35 p.m.) London, February 12. The Master of Elibank, presiding at an Insurance Act meeting at the London Opera House, said ihe Liberals henceforth assumed the entire responsibility for the Act. Owing to the opponents’ attitude any credit accruing would l)e theirs alone.

Air Lloyd-George denounced the unionists’ inhumanity in counselling the doctors' to -strikd.i • The Royal College of Physicians’ and Surgeons’ refusal to discuss the Act with the Government Department was unparalleled as an example of rude ineptitude. If the doctors refused to work under the Act they would deprive the community of the safeguards it provided, inasmuch as medical relief money would be handed to those insured through societies. Moreover, medical institutes and dispensaries would multiply throughout the land.