INFECTIOUS DISEASES
MEANS OF PREVENTION UNI VEII SI IT PROFESSOR’S SUGGESTION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, April 18. (Received April 18, at 11.5 a.m.) Professor .Welsh, dean of the faculty of medicine at the Sydney Univcrrity, giving evidence before the Federal Public Works Committee in regard to the proposed establishment of a Federal School of Public Health in the university, said that by the expenditure of a few millions of pounds upon an intensive campaign in popularising the necessary means of prevention nearly all infections diseases could bo eliminated within a generation. BASIS OF COMMON ACTION. MELBOURNE, April 18. (Received April 18, at 11.55 a.m.) The Health Council lias succeeded in reaching a basis of common action for the treatment of infectious diseasesProposals for iho establishment of a tuberculosis bureau on the lines of the existing venereal disease clinics have been formulated. Jt was resolved, also, to hold an inquiry throughout Australia into mental deficiency.
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Evening Star, Issue 19844, 18 April 1928, Page 6
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