MEDICAL SCHOOL.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20787, 22 February 1933, Page 8

MEDICAL SCHOOL.

WAIKATO CRITICISM. SIR LINDO FERGUSON W REPLY. (F&JM« M»OCUTIO» TBUK»i*-> " DDNEDIX, February 21. At a westing o? the University Council to-day, the Bean of the MetfWMU Faculty, Sir Lindo Ferguson; refßw to a statement by Dr. M. M. Hooken, medical superintendent of the Waikato Hospital, "That young men are not ing in for medicine as they ,t».V p Sir Lindo Ferguson said it was particularly undesirable that uninformed and irresponsible statements bearing on medical education should find their way into the press. He said that they had 297 names on the class rolls at the end of last -year as against 304 for 1998, and this year it was probable that the numbers would be larger. He referred to the.demand for house surgeons which had grown enormously within the last 15 or 20 years, and referred to the educational advantages of supplying these hospitals with students. Dr. Hocken's suggestion that the sub-Dean had advised young graduates v not to go to Hamilton was entirely without foundation. Last October and at a later date the". Waikato Hospital Board had been asked what number of house surgeons it required, and on neither occasion ' was a reply received. ' "The year after next," Sip Lindo ] Ferguson concluded, "we shall probably i hare more graduates than are necessary, and for the next three or four j years this 6tate of affairs will continue, j but nothing is more likely to diaorgan- i ise our arrangements for the future I than publicity of the type which the, Waikato board has thrust upon us,"