MEDICAL SERVICES.
CANADIAN PROFESSOR URGES HEALTH INSURANCE. ONLY SATISFACTORY METHOD. (Received Wednesday, 7 p.m.) VANCOUVER, August 26. A message from Winnipeg states that the Medical Association opened its conference there to-day, with two thousand medical men present. The opening ceremonies included Professor Harvey Smith’s presidential address and impressive religious services. Professor Smith, in his address, stressed the fact that the economic organisation of medicine had not kept pace with its scientific progress. He pointed out that thirty per cent, of patients were treated free by physicians, and advocated a system of health insurance as the only method by which competent medical services may be placed within the reach of all on a satisfactory basis
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Wairarapa Age, 28 August 1930, Page 5
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