FEW DOCTORS.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 July 1915, Page 4

FEW DOCTORS.

TITI? DEARTH IN AUCKLAND. By Telegraph.—Press Association. ' Auckland, Last Night. At n meeting of the Hospital Board " a . '"seussion took place in regard to the siiortage of doctors owing to so many medical i,. offering their services to Hie Defence Department. , The chairman stated that at the present time there were onlv two junior doctors in residence at the hospital instead of live, while the two remaining had ft i so volunteered for service at the front, there was a danger, lie understood, of the -8 medical student? going up for the next examination at the Dunedin Oniversity being absorbed for military service. Accordingly he bad telegraphed to the Inspector-General of Hospitals placin" before birn tbe hospital's need of juniors ■ there was also a need for doctors to * administer anaesthetics. ' ■