To the Editor of the "Nortu-Cama Dairy Naws.''
Sim,—May I employ your valuable columns to solicit information on a subject the explanation of which have been unable to obtain elsewhere?
I believe that at the recent ratepayers' meeting a resolution was passed making it permissible for all municipal employees to engage any physician to attend themselves and their families, thus abolishing the unsatisfactory system whereby employees were compelled to submit themselves to the treatment of physicians chosen by the Council without any consideration for the wishes of the employees.
In spite of this I know personally a municipal, employee who, after the passage of this resolution, engaged an "outside" physician and submitted the account to the Council for payment. It was returned to him with the information that he must settle the account himself as the new regulation will not become effective till the end of 1921 on account of old contracts with municipal physicians which hold good till then. This case I kulow personally but I have heard of several others in the same position.
addition to this I have heard that the Council] issued a private
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