The Commissioners have three separate plans for dealing with the
areas in which the panels remain incomplete. Of these. the first applies to places in which only a few more doctors are required. Here the panels are to be closed forthwith, and the doctors already on the panels are to be invited to find the required number of assistants or partners, on the understanding that the panels shall remain closed until these new men have had time to establish themselves in the district. The second plan is merely a development of the first, and is applicable to places where the panels are altogether insufficient or are non- existent. Here doctors will be imported wholesale into the district from outside, on the same understanding that the panels shall remain closed until the strangers have gained their footing. This is, in fact, a scheme of plantation. The Commissioners can look to Prussian Poland for lessons in this very difficult and unsatisfactory science.
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