RAILWAY PORTER INJURED.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18917, 4 February 1927, Page 16

RAILWAY PORTER INJURED.

(MISS 4SIOCUTIOS TSLIOSAH.) OHAKUNE, February 3. The porter, M. O. F. Bedell, who was injured yesterday at Ohakune Junction, was taken to the Taihape HosSital and operated on by Dr. Carrick .obertson. His injuries comprised a triple fracture of the skull, and a broken arm. It is surmised that the accident happened by Bedell standing too close to the edge of the platform when the north-bound express entered" the station. His lamp struck the engine, the concussion throwing him against the train. -The south express with a party of doctors going to the conference, crossing at Ohakune. enabled the injured man to bo hurried to hospital.

Eachern, the American expert on hospital standardisation. He hoped that many of his valuable suggestions would bo adopted, and in particular he would like to see their public hospitals mndo available to all classes, but with the proviso that the sick poor should continue to have the gratuitous services of an honorary staff, in accordance with the honourable traditions of the profession. For in this, as in all things, they must jealously guard the great prestige of public esteem and public confidence that they owed to thoir predecessors. A Serious Man's Job. In conclusion, he would quote what had been said about them by the Bt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain, the Minister for Public Health, speaking at the London Hospital a few months ago: "No one could doubt the fundamental seriousness of mind of any practising surgeon or physician. I don't mean that doctors have no sense of humour. God forbidt Their worst enemies have not accused them of that. But inevitably there must be in them a serious vein. They must feel that their calling is something beyond a mere means of earning one's livelihood, that they have a purpose in life which ia neither selfish nor superficial, and that tltpy concern themselves not only with, the care of the individual, but with the much wider task of trying to improve the general health of the people." That was the kind of criticism that was sweet to their cars. Let them show that they of to-day were worthy of it.