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efforts to improve the provision of health care in 1871 by forming a
Sickness and Medical Aid Society. This was followed by a public meeting in 1872 at which it was decided to raise the necessary funds to build a hospital. Dr Lee was qualified to become the hospital's superintendent but the Hospital Committee appointed Dr Thomas Sanderson Bulmer of
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Hospital Committee deteriorated due to several issues: supplying medicines to patients free of charge, lack of treatment of a patient in an emergency and sub-standard treatment of a miner with a broken leg. Bulmer resigned, the Hospital Committee advertised
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Hospital was established in 1872 and still stands on its original site in Broadway, Reefton. In 1872 Reefton had at least eight doctors including Dr Joseph Lee. Lee was a surgeon who had set up his practice to treat the victims of mining accidents, and other patients. The community had begun
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to the position. Later in 1872 Bulmer was charged with assaulting a fellow doctor, Joseph Currie, and was fined twenty shillings. In the following months Bulmer appeared in court several times on various matters including his suing a midwife over payment for his services.
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229:. Reefton: Reefton Hospital. 1972. pp. 1–6.
168:Crawshaw, Norman (2008). "Medical Misadventure".
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