ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a few notes on the author, Arthur Newsholme's European inquiries. In the Netherlands medical assistance is not regarded as a State responsibility, but is limited to instances in which voluntary organisations do not suffice. For non-domiciliary treatment all countries provide gratuitous beds for the indigent, but to a very varying extent and of very varying medical quality. Ireland approaches more nearly to general free domiciliary and hospital treatment than Great Britain, though the average quality of the Irish provision has been less satisfactory than that in Great Britain. In other European countries tax-supported hospitals and hospitals to which insurance funds contribute are the rule and voluntary hospitals are exceptional. Consultation centres for patients not admitted to hospitals are common in all European countries. The various sickness insurance schemes in Europe determine in large measure the extent to which the medical needs of European countries are being met and the quality of the treatment that is being given.
