PUBLIC HEALTH

Grey River Argus, 20 October 1936, Page 8

PUBLIC HEALTH

AN AUSTRALIAN’S STUDY ABROAD. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) NEW YORK, October 18. Mr Wall, a- member of the Legislative Council and Board of Health, New South Wales, who has been travelling in England and Europe since February, inquiring into the teaching methods at medical schools and the technique of examining proponents for life insurance, is now en route home. Interviewed here, he stated: I regard the teaching methods in England and the United States superior to anything I have see anywhere. An advantage over Australia is that the larger classes and more money enable the schools to establish Faculty Chairs, in stead of lectureships. A most remarkable advance is in colour cinemas of all important operations. The practice of notifying specialists of unusual disease cases, enables them to obtain broad research. Mr Wall believes that Australian doctors should emulate this. He was greatly impressed with England’s and America’s handling of certain public health .matters, especially venereal diseased and tuberculosis. He would like to see Australia attack the problems along the same lines with public venereal disease clinics, and a thoiough inquiry into the background of tuberculosis cases, with continued fol-lowing-up by authorities.