WELLINGTON DOCTORS' ATTITUDE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17544, 10 April 1919, Page 5

WELLINGTON DOCTORS' ATTITUDE.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, April 9

Inquiries made by a reporter today elicited the fact that none of the New Zealand doctors who worked on the block system during the epidemic have been paid by the Department yet. The position is that Wellington doctors decided to charge the Government £10 10a. a day for the period of the block system. The matter was hung up a long time. Then an offer came from the Minister to pay £7 a djiy. The local branch of the Medical Association considered and agreed to accept the offer provided the Government paid for petrol used and that any medical men put to expense in hiring cars should be compensated. It is stated that doctors here have agreed to work on the block system if there is a recurrence of the epidemic and they have also agreed to standardise medicines required by sufflerers. in order to simplify treatment.