DOCTORS DISCUSS DAYLIGHT SAVING

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6542, 25 February 1928, Page 10

DOCTORS DISCUSS DAYLIGHT SAVING

And its Effects on Health PRESENTATION TO DR. -• BONNEY • (Per Press Association.) HAMILTON, Feb. 24 The effect of daylight saving upon the health of the community was one of the questions raised at the meeting of the council of the Medical Association. The council did not record any opinion on the subject, it- being decided to obtain reports from the 13 divisions throughout the Dominion and re-open the subject at the quarterly meeting of the council to be held in Wellington in June, At the annual dinner of the association last evening, the president, Dr. H. Douglas, presided. Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Health and Dr. Valintine, Director of Health were present. A presentation of a silver-mounted inkstand was made to Dr. Victor Bonncy as representing the British Medical Association. The stand, which is a gift from the New Zealand Medical Association, will be used in the hew offices of the parent body in London. A gift from the English Obstetrical Society was presented to Dr. Irving, president of the newly formed New Zealand Obstetrical Society by Dr. Bonncy.

WIDER KNOWLEDGE OF CHILD BIRTH NECESSARY (Per Press Association.) ■" , HAMILTON, Last Night. The conference of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association was'’continued at Hamilton to-day when important papers were read. To-morrow the visitors will, after visiting Arapuni, entrain for Eotorua where the concluding meetings are to be held. The necessity for a wider knowledge among doctors and nurses and the public relative to child birth, was emphasised in a paper by Mr. Victor Bonney, the eminent London surgeon when speaking on puerperal sepsis. Dr, F. Gwynne, of Auckland, delivered an interesting paper on miners’ phthisis, while Dr. Bevan Brown, of Auckland, dealt with the subject of dibetes. The New Zealand Obstetrical Society held a full meeting, Dr. Eiley, of Dunedin, being elected patron; Dr. Irving, president; and Dr. Corkill, of Wellington, vice-president. The need for funds was greatly stressed in this important branch of medical science. Dr. J. S. Elliott, of Wellington, was selected as, president elect of the New Zealand branch of the 8.M.A., and he will be inducted at fhe annual meeting in Wellington next February. Ho was .reappointed editor of the New Zealand Medical Journal. ' There has been an extensive speial programme for visitors.