MATERNAL MORTALITY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18578, 10 December 1923, Page 3

MATERNAL MORTALITY.

|, "Progress" hits pne of the nails on the head in : his remarks on recently- - fledged medical practitioners. Rushing ; * '-"./■• young, recently-fledged doctor, especially ; if he returns from a British medical . . school, has always been a weakness with ".■; the New Zealand people, specially in country towns. V'l mentioned this fact ) :to an 7 eminent Sydney doctor , a few years since; and he replied that Australia did the same inV her • younger days, r but now the v ,'r people preferred "the experienced ; prac- /. titioner. ' Auckland, KJice:' her popu- ■■*'■ lation has increased ;by J such r numbers, V< and is becoming a grown-up 'city, -■■ does > ~ not : rush ihe recently-fledged ->- doctor as she Sid a few . years.;. since. \ The public will not tart eb' their ■ • worldly ; possessions , to a •■, recently-fledged ;: "> lawyer or their buildings to a recentlyfledged architect, as something mora is re-v. :: quired ( than mere book work, yet th«>y will trust their bodies 1g those whom the 5 :■, examiners have only just let loose on the . public, after a " six years' coarse, only :"'; the /latter • half ,/ of'::- 1 which is •. spent ;in ■•'''/■.-"'Che: hospitals and '. the first half on the preliminary sub-'-: jects, chemistry, biology, anatomy, pliyoi- »;v ology, etc. ': A- number .of young doctors have never had an opportunity of practis- :§/•''- ing f instrumental ■ midwifery on ; the / living; - subject '} before:" commencing ;• -practice^' aa / there is .not sufficient material to Igo ; round. It is :; against the ; spirit of the ;. New Zealand (native born or imported) to act.as an assistant;.;. It is the same in the. Church;; young men ' will hot act as" curates,, but will have a country living to , themselves. , ;;'<■" .- Expebiznot.