DOCTORS BY CONTRACT
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]- • SIR,—In 'your issue of December 25th you publishedan inte- resting article on " Doctors by Contract." • Surely it is tithe that the dependants of National Health Insured' persons were given free medical attendance and medicine ?
In view of the national importance of a healthy population improved nutrition is indeed badly needed, and ,surely the health of the mothers during the whole of their liVes is also of, vital importance for the well-being of future generations.
Large doctors' bills come to be so much dreaded that often the doctor is not summoned in time to prevent serious illness. Moreover, the doctor's bill has frequently to be paid out of a wage inadequate to keep a family in anything approaching the standard of nutrition shown by Sir John Orr to be,.necessary for health. The children of. school age do indeed get some medical attention, but what of the children below school age or in cases where the illness is not connected with the school medical examination ? No doubt the voluntary insurance services are a great benefit, but compulsory. insurance milder an extension of the National Health, Insurance Scheme would enable all workers' dependants to obtain necessary- medical attendance in the country as well as in the town.—I: am,
CAMPBELL' FRASER.
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