LADY MEDICAL STUDENTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2773, 8 May 1907, Page 52

LADY MEDICAL STUDENTS.

NEW ZEALANDKRS AT EDINBURGH. ! (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, March 23. In addition to the numerous male medical students from New Zealand at the University of Edinburgh, there are a fair number of New Zealand lady medical students at work in the northern capital, their headquarters being 1 the Women's Medical College. At the present time those New Zealand ladies include: Mrs Alice M. Burn (wife of Mr D. W. M. Burn, M.A., of Otago), Miss Eva Meredith (her sister), Miss Jess:e Scott (Christchurcli), and Miss Wilma Sievwrijrht (Gisborne). Tho accompanying notes about the progress of each of these ladies will, I feel sure, be read with much interest in the colony: — i Mrs Burn, who began her medical course in New Zealand, has completed her degree in the minimum amount of time, after » very successful career as a student — having secured no fewer than 17 honours certifii cates, most of them of the first-class order jof merit. Last July she qualified as M.8., Ch 8., Edinburgh, and has since been engaged in work for the diploma of public health. She takes u^> an apT>ointment as resident to the Women's Hospital in Edin- , burgh on May I. After securing her D.P.H. in October next she proposes to return to New Zealand. Dr Burn is being specially trained for public health appointments in the way of work against infant mortality, inspection of school children, domestic hveiene, and the .practical sanitation of the home, etc. — all that is included under the term " home economics." Dr Burn purposes spending part of her April holiday in Arbroath wit.h Mr Haitly Burn, father of Mr David Burn, of Birmingham. Dr Burn, who was formerly a student at Cantei'bury College, has many friend?, especially in the South Island, who will bo glad to learn of her very satisfactory orogress in her profession. Mis 3 Eva Meredith, sister of Dr Alice Burn, is now in her final year, having passed through her student course with the record of honours in every class examination in the curriculum, more than half of which were of the first-claea order. She also was awarded the Edgeware gold medal in anatomy, and she has secured cl.iss prizes for tho second place in several oiher of her subjects. Miss Meredith intends to spend her holiday in further pursuit of her medical studies, going to St. Mary's Hospital, Manchester. For many i years Miss Meredith was a teacher in | South Canterbury, where she is well known. Both s:sters have been .nor" than mere students of the Women's College during their sojourn in Edinburgh, for they havo I taken prominent and active parta in the I social life of the medical students in the ] northern capital, and thfir presence ia always in request for every function—formal or informal, social or professional — pertaining to tho college. At the present time Dr Alice Burn is activclv oromorinir tho establishment of a central bureau for tho imostieation of underpaid or reducedsalarierl posts for medical women. Mirs Jowio Scott (Chrisfchurch), another rrodical stut'ent in the north, is now in her third voar, and sh<\ too, has a pood lororcl of medals and honours passes in fir^t and <*ooond year subjects _ Last Mimmer, durinc tho vacation, Mi.°s Scott spont six months in Germany, devoting some time to learning tho language vhile stiving with friends who live there. Mij>s Wilma Sievwri"ht (Gisborne), also a nied oal student in Edinburgh, has iust boon iomod by her sister. Miss Meta Siovwritrht, who was one of the nassenorers by the « s. Suevic on the occasion of nor recent vovatre. which ended in so disastrous a mannrr. Miss M. Sievwricht arrived in Edinburgh minus nil her bf-long-inE« but in poo^ health and in excellent spirits; if is r-pliovod now that her lug-g-atre will uhiiiatolv bo sont on to her qnito intart. Fn to tho time of the orash on the rocks off rho Lizard the Suovic had had a snlondid p-assapro, and those on board b-M.l had a \or-v pleasant time. The Misses Riovu right aro nlanmner a trip round the lochs and Highlands of Scotland for the turanirr months.

—An amusing story come 1 ? from Bristol which has the virtue of being true. A man was driving along the road near Victoria Park, when he fell from his vehicle and lay on the ground, seemingly badly hurt. The police were called, and it being feared he had broken his leg he was conveyed to the General Hospital. There the feara wore confirmed, he had broken his leg— • but it was ft wooden ooel