POST-MORTEM EXAMINATIONS.
A DOCTOE'S SUGGESTION. That more post-mortem examinations should be made was the opinion advanced by Dr. W. Young, president of the 8.M.A., when addressing delt gates at the opening of the conference of the New Zealand' section of the AssoCiatioa a.fc Wellington on Monday niyiat "Too many people die," said Dr. Young, "without the cause of death being verified by such examination. It is to the study of pathology that we owe the great advance in medicine ot recent years. Progress would be still further promoted if the pathologist's report was demanded in all cases ol patients dying in public hospitals 1 specify hospitals because such work could be done as a routine, without any increased expense to the com munity. The public would soon learn that it was not a question of idla curiosity, but that it was a desin* ™ the part of the doctors to discover cisely the cause of death, and to U, if any other treatment might be ed with chances of euccess £ cases of a similar nature.'' re
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17393, 2 March 1922, Page 6
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