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Black Market In Medical OAC RECEIVES FIRST South Africa Prepares
Treatment In Estonia
By THOMAS HARRIS :
Stockholm, Jan. 5.
Doctors in Tallinn, capital of Soviet Estonia, are running a “black market” in medical treatment, according to reports brought by travellers reaching here from the little Baltic republic.
Their patients, the travellers say, are well to do people anxious to escape the austerity of the state-run hospitals and elinics. They prefer to sneak into the doctor's surgery by a backdoor and pay an inflated fee to enduring the rough and
treatment given in ready
the state
establishmnts.
Thin trade in the "bedside free Institution to fee charging manner" must be carriexi on Institution impossible unless the Accretly since most
dxtors: patient has influence. plying at are not authorised to practise privately. Private injured persona sill able to practice permita are, netonlly,, move often lake a taxi to a obstudentë, but only in small fee-chorging polyclinic and try numbers and after a long and ta orange treatment for them- empleated process,
selves there,
Revolutionary Titanium Processing
London, Jan. 5. A major step forward in pro- cessing titanium for jet engines, which it is claimed will re- The Estonians' health genes ai-volutionise production of super- in satisfactory. The number sonic engines, was unnounced tuberculosis cases which today by Sir Hoy Dobson, Chuir- Siddeley the Hawker engineering group.
The private practitioners are d chary of tempting new patients lest ther should include in-of formers who would betray them | Susrexi after the Soviet occupa-
for the authorities, New patients
+ ** therefore. generally 17- frontures by existing patients.
Small Fees
As the invalids parteadurly dinbetles, asthmates and others requiring regular treatment, are enger to find a private doctor, 04 Jandlestine practitioner always has more patients than be okay handle
on in 1940, has fallen again in the past two years beenuse food studies have improved.
Similarly, venereal drenge
The wave of
man of
We believe we have made a development uf the
greatest significance," he said.
The
the Avro
procem has been develop- which swepted by Canadian Steet improve- the country during and after
a member of ment, a the war has been fought back.
Canudo group of companies, of whid Sir Roy is founder and chairman.
Avro Canada Limited is
of the Hawker subsidiary Siddeley group.
Widespread
Totay, the most widespread ditenes are thewhatism, heart diseases and "stress" complaints like asthma, stomach ulcers and high blood pressure.
***
Mater
doctors DR. therefore, affort to charge re- latively amati fres They ring from 25 rouble. to 50 rotibles
The most usuai grouse of the visit This is not outrage
man or woman feeling off colour ously more than the five to tents, "I have a splitting headache." roubles a pit charges by those
polyclinis authorised
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On the other hand, pincer regular
prolonged private Treatment out of the reach of maisual workers, whose wake Rverage 300 roubles a month. This go_to_the_fee-charging polyclinies if they are seriously il and to the free polyclinics and hospitals if they nee suffer- Ing from some straple ailment.
Dentists also have clandestine private praeliers They charge i 25 roubles for alling a wooth. I The same operation 01 A foo charging palvelinle roubles
CORIG 10
The fere huispitals and elintes have a bad name because they are short of doctors, medlemes atul niedern equipment
Bureaucratic
Doctors in the free establish- ments are expected to handle six to ten palfints an hour. To complete their
wounds. they have to see many more than
that
As a rull, they make their dlagnoses by the hand and eye rather than by X-ray, blood analysis and other Tengthy methods.
Diagnosis, and treatment, by apparatus is further complicated by the bureaucratie methods imposed on the hospitals by the central authorities,
Every time a doctor sends a pallent for an X-ray, a blood test or other special examina- tion he must himself in form. The doctor giving the test must All in his own form and the patient must take with him a chit which both doctors must sign.
Because doctors are too few and patients too Numerous, many hospitai superintendents assign important treatment, in- eluding minor surgical opera→ tions, to senior medical students. For this reason, patients always try to ascertain the name of their surgeon before agreeing to undergo an operation.
Drug Shortage
Older, type medicinta" liko castor oil, cod liver oil, quinine and bromides are plentiful,
There is, however, a great shortage of the nawer drugs liko euromycin. This and other "wonder drugs" can always be obtained through private practi- tioners and this is
another rouson for their growing popularity.
Traffic castialties and other Injured persons have special difficulties.
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Sometimes they have to walt unduly long, for an: ambulanco because there is a shortage o themode
homo in hospital two att
slay, there unil at for dimhargé snica the ventralisod bureaulēružie: wystems “mákona frunziors; frous.
Headache powders, these in- formants say, are the most sold medicines in Estonia nowadays.
China Mall Special,
TURBO-PROP AIRCRAFT
Sir Milles Thomas, chair- man,
British Overstas Air-
ways Corporation, is shown Danes Alerted
#ested as the controls of a artaranda 190, one of typo turbo-propeller airliners handed over to
BOAC in London last week. The 67-ton craft are the largest of their kind in the world, have been highly rated by air experts. The Britanniaa will go into operation carly next summer on the company's London- Johannesburg route. Later ilmore will also be Britannias In service bo Australia —
Express Photo.
Pigeon Post
6 of the
For Rat Invasions
Copenhagen, Jan. 6.
Danish scientists are prepar- Ing
to
combat a threatened invasion of muck-rats from Germany.
For Historic
Parliament
Session Of
Capetown, Jan. 5.
A new and historic ́ session of the South African Parliament is due to open on January 13 when the enlarged Scnate will be asked for the first time to enact long-standing controversial constitutional changes.
The new Senate with its membership raised from 48 to 89 since the last session, guarantees the Nationalists (Government party) the two-thirds majority in joint sittings of both Houses of Parliament required to win their five-year battle for the removal of coloured voters of mixed blood from the white electoral rolls,
It will also help the Govern- it had not been approved by ment in its avowed plan to the two-thirds majority in a make Parliament "sovereign," joint sitting of the two Houses that is, to put its laws affecting or Parliament-stipulated for the Constitution above any tests any South African law chang- in the courts.
Ing voting rights.
South Africa's United Party Opposition,
with representing other anti-Government parties Wittle more than half the white electorate, has condemned tho new Senate and its purposes es "House of Frauds" and the rond to a "One-Party State."
Express Regret
Government spokesmen express regret that they were forced into Tho musk-rots have been the Senate device by the
refusal to spreading northwards along the Opopsition's
Co- west coast of South Slesvig operate in currying out the "will towards the Danish border. I of the people" on the coloured is feared that they might
voters isque—a "will" redccied in the votca. cost for the Nationalists in postwar elections.
do
serious damage to sca defences
by
ται
Priority
Repeated Failures
Parliament itself was then turned into a "High Court," by another Act designed to over- ride the Appeal Court decision. But this Act, too, was invalidat- ed by the Appeal Court,
Repeated fallures to do two-thirds majority with the help of the Opposition finally resulted in the Nationalist Government passing the Senate Act in the last session.
This
Act alinosi doubled the Upper House and created a 77 to 12 voting advantage there,
to
Reintroduction of the original 1981 Separate Representation of Voters Act could now have al- is expected to be most automatic success, If it given by the Nationalist Govern-doca, the traditional right ment in the coming session to vote with whites, enjoyed by political con- Coloured people of mixed race caring up the Bict over the coloured voters and since the early days of settic- Parliamentary "sovereignty."
ment in South Africa's southern Cape Province, will be lost.
Joint sittings of both Houses- the Assembly and the Senate...
urrowing under dykes,
agricultural research station at St Jyndevad near the Beirut, Jan
German border has alerted the A carrier pigeon
local population to be ready to
the {artreli
Intelligence
invasion with service, fight bearing top-secret messages, has poison-China Mail Special. D
been captured by the Mayor of Hanlo, southern Lebanon, it was Salisbury, Rhodesia, Jan. 5. disclosed here today. The mes- Sir Roy sidd today: "We have
The City Council here will in Arabic, related confer the Freedom of the City developed
sage, written process which
are likely for this purpose carly Attacks Predicted to the movement of eliminated much
Syrien on the Marquess of Salisbury on in the session, before Parliament v1
the troops.
It was fitted into a tiny January 29 difficulty in forging
when titanium, plastic
he visits actties down to tits routine work. container fitted
to the Southern Rhodesia. resulting in A substantial re- bird's claw.
The present The city was named after the duction in cost.
situation arises we
Arab military authorities Marquess's grandfather when he from a 1951 Act to transfer the сал forge
finished luve begun investigations to see was British Prime Minister in Coloured voters to precision jot turbine Bludes as whether Israel has a whole net-the late 1880's.
a separate cheaply as rough forging. thus work of carrier pigeons working himself is leader
The Marques electoral list for communal re
of the Con- į presentation in Parilament eliminating a costly process.”—
over the Arab countries. servatives in the House of Lords. being rejected China Mail Special.
by the South France-Preese.
China Mall Special.
African Appeal Court because
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Opposition. quarters, however, are almost more concerned with the new law-making machinery which the Government has given itself than with the fate of the Coloured voters.
The Leader of the Opposition, Mr Jacobus Strauss, has predict- |ed further attacks on the South African Constitution the 1909 Westminster South Africa Act forming the Union of South Africa by the Nationalist Government in
coming months.
the
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Some of his supporters have speculated whether the Goveru- ment may abolish the clauses in- tho Constitution entrenching current voting rights and the equal rights of South Africa's two official languages, English and Afrikaans,
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Others ask whether the la- flated Senato, costing the country £130,000 a year in salaries, will be retained in definitely or abolished in favour of one-chamber government. "Psychological wasture being practised by both sides. The Government gives no eluc in advance of its next moves.
The United Party Opposition, meanwhile, is considering challenging the Senate Act in the courts but is delaying any public decision at least unti Parliament meets.
Push Ahead
The Opposition must walt until the traditionni opening of Parliament by the Governor General, Sir Ernest Jansen, before their. Members hear broadly what the Government's. programme for the senator may bo. But the threat of legut action over the now Senate hangs ovor the Government.
Government leaders intend to push ahead with their legisla tive programme for the session regardless of Opposition a tivities. But chace could result. If by chance, the Senate Act were to be invalidated by the Courts, nullifying every Act meanwhile approved by the enlarged Scnato,
South Africa's minority. Labour Party which normally sides with the United Party Opposition against the Govern- ment, has announced that it will not take part in any joint. sitting in the coming saloni as a form of protest,
This will make no difference. to the outcome, any more than
boycott by the entire Op position coul affect the situa Lion. The Constitution requires -
majority of two-thirds of RII members of the Assembly and Benabo, not just two-thirds of those attending a joint
sitting
The 189-seat Amembly and the new 89-seat Benate malice. total of 248, of which 150 la two-thirds, Government DNA porters 14 numbers.94ink the Amerably and 37 in the new Benate giving them
171 votes live more than the required two-thirds in 1 bosh Houses --China Mall #peciali
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