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DOCTORS & POOR SAID TO WANT FEES IN ADVANCE. Surprising Pe narthSIL-ory I A surprising statement reg-arding the alleged boycotting1 of poor people unable to pa.-y ready money for medical attention by doctors of Peaarth. was made in a letter which was read at the meeting' of the Cardiff Board of Guardians this afternoon. The writer is Dr. T. F. Roohe, the Poor-law medical officer for the Pemarth and Dinas Powis district. The letter, dated March 24, was as follows:- I beg to inform the board of a consider- a.Me increase in the number of poor persons now applying to me for parochial medical attendance. It is the outcome of a system adopted by the combined junior medical profession at Pena-rtk of jointly" black- listing" their debtors and boyeat-t-ing them I am told that there are from 600 to 700 poor families already on the list. These cannot get a visit from a local d-octor with- out first producing 3s. &d., and it is part of the system that if in the first visit the case its likely to overtax the 'patient's capa- bility to keep on finding ready money the 3s. 6d. is to be handed back and the case declined altogether. When many of these persons are ill they are unprepared with a fee, or a series them, fail to get a doctcr, and are driven to fail back on me as the Poor-law medical officer. I know by experience that if I refuse them also the only move left to them is to apply to the relieving officer, or overseer of the poor, for a medical relief order, which he dare not refuse in the face of ill- ness, no money, and no credit. Rather than undertake the obligations which an official order entails, and the burden of reporting- on all these oases weekly, I have been giving them the attendance they require without the intervention of the relieving officer. The number of applicants is increasing, as it is becoming known that I am available free, and I am now seeking the advice of the board as to what I had better do in the matter in the future. The following are a few illustrative cases. (1). Mrs. Ellis, of Llandough, failed to engage a Penaj-th doctor to attend her in her expected accouchement without 14 4s. in advance. She offered me one and a half guineas cash down to undertake her case, but I do not now accept engagements that may take me to Penarth at night, outside of thoee connected with my public appoint- ments. The result was an appeal to the board, who kindly granted her my services free, and her other- expenses on loan. (2). Mrs. Hurley, 19, Charlotte-street, applied for attendance for a ohild with a broken log. I asked her to send for her usual medioal attendant. I soon had a message from Mr. Williams, overseer of the poor for Cogan, that he was a.bout to give an order, whereupon I attended without order. Soon after this Mrs. Hurley was confined, and the registered midwife sent for me. (3). Mrs. Selby, 78, Salop-street, having tried elsewhere first, eent for me on the 20th inst. I refused, and she paid another doctor for attendance on same evening, and again on the 22nd inst. As I expected, on the morning of the 23rct I had a medical relief order. Her husband's wages for four weeks prior to this were £ 1 6s. 7d., XI Is. 8d.. £ 1 2s. 9d., and 17s. lOd. (1). I was vaccinating a baby at 12, Dock- road, on the 22nd inst., and met another doctor in the house. A different doctor had attended the patient in question the previous day or days, and evidently the ready money was by then exhausted, for I was f-ormr.-lly introduced as the Poor-law medical officer. The Chairman (Canon Buckley): Dr. Roche has evidently, in the kindness of his heart-, brought it all upon himself. He ought to have asked for an order from the relieving officer in ea-ch case. He ought, to ask for orders from the relieving officers. In that case he would not have any more trouble than the medical officers in other parts of the union. I think it is a matter for the relief committee. (Hear, hear.) Mr. J. J. Ames: I think it is necessary to send it down to the relief committee, if he makes charges against other doctors and reflects on the relieving omcerF. The Rev. E. T. Davies (Penaxth): There is a combination among doctors to exolude those who have not paid them before. It was resolved to refer the matter to the relief committee.

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