WOMEN DOCTORS OF ALL NATIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19257, 22 August 1924, Page 10

WOMEN DOCTORS OF ALL NATIONS.

LONDON CONFERENCE. A conference of medical women from 17 countries was held in Lon don last month at the Royal Society of Medicine. The occasion was the 1924 meeting of the Medical Women’s International Association, and the social programme included a reception by the Prime Minister and Miss Ishbel MacDonald, tea at. the House of Commons, and dinner ’at the Forum Club (by the University Section). At this dinner Professor Louise MTlroy presided. Dr Jane Walker said that 16 or 17 countries wore represented at the conference, including Russia and Germany. Science was an international thing to which there wore no national borders. She expected that out of this women’s organisation would grow an international association of doctors generally. . Lord Riddell, in giving a welcome to the delegates from the United States, said that, in America there were 160,000 doctors, including 6000 women, to a population of 110 000,000. In (his country, with a population of 42,000,000. there were only aO.OOO doctors including 400 women, whence perhaps the low death-rate.—(Cheers and laughter.) Madame Thuillier Landry, responding to the toast of ’‘France,” said that there was such an equality among French men and women doctors, who were educated the same sc-bools, hospitals, and institutions, there was no need of a separate women doctors’ association. lint saich an acscx‘iation had now been formed with the express purpose of sending delegates to the conference.—(Cheers.)