On This Day, 27 December 1918

Birmingham Daily Gazette 

Friday 27 December 1918

DOCTORS WANTED.

BIRMINGHAM SENDS IN A LIST OF TWENTY-SEVEN.

Perhaps the demobilisation of no one is more urgently needed than that of the doctor. When the armistice was signed there were 52 Birmingham panel doctors serving with the forces and the number of their insured patients totalled no less than 53,418.

According to the report of the Medical Benefit Sub-Committee of the Birmingham Insurance Committee, the Insurance Commissioners are making earnest efforts to secure the return of the local doctors from service, and the Birmingham committee has been requested to send a list of doctors most urgently needed, the need being judged not by the doctor’s private circumstances, but the pressure in districts where there is a risk of a breakdown in the medical service.

The Birmingham committee has sent to the Commissioners a list of 27 doctors, but far only three have returned to the city.