WOMEN DOCTORS IN ENGLAND

Evening Star, Issue 20591, 17 September 1930, Page 13

WOMEN DOCTORS IN ENGLAND

The tendency to select women as medical school inspectors is very strong in England, says a London correspondent. Two-thirds of the teachers are now women, and it is considered that two-thirds of the inspectors also will bo of that sex. They are also numerous on medical boards for schools. Dame Janet Campbell is chief medical adviser and also a senior medical offifecer in the Ministry of Health. It is a curious fact, much commented upon in various places, that it seems easier for a woman to gain an appointment as medical inspector than an ordinary school inspector. Various excuses are continually made for refusal in the latter case, blit the true reason probably is that the .women are “up against’’, a more natroiy-mirtded brand of officialdom tlian is the case where the children’s medical care is concerned. As regards medical work in general, women lhay recei m posts of tremendous responsibility, as was the case in London recently, where Dr Florence Barrie Lambert, under a new system, has been given the superintendence, .of the. work of thirteen ambulance stations, also 170 vehicles, 75,00tl hospital beds, 100 hospitals, and other institutions, including all + he staffs, while the expenditure for which she is responsible comes (it is said) to milions yearly.