27 APRIL 1912, Page 19

The confusion and the absence of benefits for the first

six months will be made an excuse by thousands of men and women all over the country for doing nothing. They will "wait and see" till they are compelled by official pressure. The position will be like that which occurs when a crowd hangs about outside a building, but cannot be induced to go in. And on the top of this confusion there will in all probability be added high war with the whole medical profession. If that war takes place we venture to predict that the Government will find their antagonists far more formidable than they imagine.