PREVENTING DISEASE.
AN EFFECTIVE CAMPAIGN. (Received 9.30 a.m.) BRISBANE, this day. The Medical Congress, in closing its sessions, adopted resolutions that the principles which underlay the success of the military and public health administration during the war could be adopted in civil life. Other resolutions favoured the establishment of a Chair of Preventive Medicine in each Australasian University, and that the campaign for preventive medicine be made real and effective, that hygiene be taught in all classes and in all schools, with complete medical inspection of children, that Federal and State Governments take action to deal with the menace of venereal diseases, and also favouring tlie formation of a section of surgery in each branch of the Medical Association in Australia and New Zealand. —(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 207, 30 August 1920, Page 5
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