DOCTORS AND LODGES.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14149, 28 July 1916, Page 7

DOCTORS AND LODGES.

.QUESTIONS ASKED IN PABLU-

1 * =■ ion and exploitation? (2) U .+ +h, ntent,on of the Government to Lend che Acv whereby the Parliament ™d the people wilt blue the Ue £^a?y £nvcegnen by piaetitioneis who, m crdei to practise, L,.ue to ]„, recstered under the Act* (3 ) Whether the Goveinmeno intends to mtioduce penal m the ot° amer\ d'^ -Act, so P,hat in the casj O i any doctoi icfusin"- totK™ W? <;ase Of und^? which I, °n ali eS^" medical- e,tiqxiette, of^hL^'ffo^V^ to SpJv r *' ■< Ile ** stn'<>k > off the medical.re gis t e r and be not allowed to penalties will be inflicted? Mr Fletcher added that in a casa-' S!#™, tho Po3ice Com-% at Auckland (Cawlaveli v. Burns), the defendant was. charged .--wjth ■ assaulting the plaintiff, who is a practising dos tor The eridenoe was to the effect! tnat the defendant sought v.r"-ent medical assistance for his child who was seriously ill, but it was refused owing to another doctor havino- l^eii previously attending. The child -died in the meantime, the former doctor not having been able to attenu. Tho magistrate condemned the plaintiff's action, and dismissed the case "with costs against the plaintiff Mr. C. H. Poole (Auckland West) gave notice wlso to ask tho Minister | for Public Health: Whether the Gov[crnment ini-&!>c!s to-take any action in 'providing legislation this "session to amend the Medical Practitioners Act in the direction of-affording the friendly societies of Now Zealand and tlie general public the necessary relief from the arbitrary action practised by the various divisions of the British Medical Association throughout New Zealand? Mr Poole stated that the friendly societies of the Dominion arc looking forward with very groat interest to a thorough revision "\ of the systemgoverning medical registration and the control, if any, which the Cabinet intends to assume regarding the conditions of medical practice in New Zaaland. •