SUBSIDIES FOR DOCTORS.
TREATMENT OF INDIGENT PATIENTS. MOVE IN NEW SOUTH WALES. (Received Wednesday, 7.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 20. The Minister of Health, Mr. Weaver, announced in the Assembly to-day that the State Government, from July 1 will subsidise doctors who attend indigent persons too ill to leave their homes for hospital treatment. Mr. Weaver pointed out that doctors in the industrial districts were earning little more than the "basic wage owing to the inability of patients in some instances to pay medical fees. Due precautions are to be taken to guard against fraud and impositions.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19340621.2.50
Bibliographic details
Wairarapa Age, 21 June 1934, Page 5
Word Count
96SUBSIDIES FOR DOCTORS. Wairarapa Age, 21 June 1934, Page 5
Using This Item
National Media Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of National Media Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in