'VARSITY HOSPITAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 85, 11 April 1933, Page 7

'VARSITY HOSPITAL.

Establishment of Clinics

Urged.

SYDNEY PROFESSOR'S SCHEME

(Received 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. At the annual meeting of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Professor R. Gordon Bell suggested the establishment of a University hospital under the direction of the professors of modicine and surgery/ and a system of compulsory universal sickness insurance.

"The natural logical outcome of Bosch clinical professorships is the establishment of a University hospital of about 200 beds on the lines of tho best German or Swiss University hospital clinics. The professor of surgery would have absolute control of 100 beds with an assistant and staff of varying grades of seniority. I would like to see this experiment made in Sydney, controlled by the University and directed by its clinical professors.

"The students would benefit and the public, in due course, from the better trained doctors. The scheme would have to be financed chiefly by the University and partly by the State."

Professor Bell was delivering the second George Syme oration. He criticised the free use of public hospitals for surgical treatment by persons able to pay for it.