WOMEN DOCTORS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 107, 19 April 1933, Page 3

WOMEN DOCTORS

MORE STILL WANTED. INCREASING DEMAND. LONDON, March 9. In a recent speech Professor Winifred Cullis made the disclosure that there is a serious scarcity of women doctors in this country, and she strongly advised all girls who were thinking of adopting a career to consider the medical profession. “We have not nearly enough women doctors,” she “and medicine not only gives the greatest happiness to the person who takes it up, but it also give s an extremely good financial- return. We get numbers of applications for women doctors at the Loudon School of Medicine for AVomen, but we have not enough women in training for all the posts we are asked to fill.” Miss M. L. Brooks (warden and secretary of the London School of Medicine for AVomen), discussing the position with a representative of the “Morning Post,” remarked:— “Medicine to-day is one of the bestpaid professions open to women. The prejudice which has existed, and does exist, against women practitioners, is disappearing with the entry of women into all the professions, and the wider experience of life in general which they have acquired. The greater importance now attached to midwifery and gynaecology is to a considerable extent due to the influence of women in the medical profession, and I know of .many women doctors to-day who have practices extending over a radius of five miles. “Again, the new conscience with regard to maternity, maternal mortality, infant care and the National Health Insurance, which necessitates the maintenance by employers of a high standard of health in factories and shops—has called for increased service on the part of women practitioners and specialists. “The course of study for men and women is the same, the expenditure of time and energy is the same, and the financial return can be the same.” The number of women doctors on the Medical Register is now’ 5391, out of a total of 55.932. Many of these hold important official posts.