THE UNIVERSITY OF WALES

Otago Witness, Issue 3574, 12 September 1922, Page 27

THE UNIVERSITY OF WALES

NATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. A NEW ZEALANDER'S SUCCESS. (From Our Own Correspondent.’ LONDON. July 27. One of the candidates in the first examination for the Tuberculous Diseases Diploma of the University of Wales, held ill Cardiff, was Dr 1. U. Maciutvre. whose friends in the dominion will he delighted In know ihat the University has conferred ! upon him this new diploma. It is regarded ! as noteworthy that tile first, recipient should | lie a tuberculosis expert from one of our ; most important dominions sent over by his I Government to study tuberculosis in the i Mother Country. i 'lhe external examiners were Sir !’. Jlorj i-on-Smith Hartley (of the staff of St. Rur- ! tholomew's Hospital and of the Bromptou Hospital for Chest Diseases) and Sir H. } Gauvain (of the Lord Mayor Ireloar s • Cripple Home, Alton), wiio has made a I great European imputation in connection 1 with surgical tuberculosis of children. | Relative to t.his diploma, a leading Welsh I paper remarks that "it is a matter of great j public interest that the Welsh National | School of Medicine at the beginning of its I career as an organisation for senior studies i in medicine should take the initiative in | creating a diploma for the study of tubereu- ! losis —a diseajte very common and very se- | vero throughout the IVtiicipaJily. It is the I hope of those responsible for the guidance of the school that, the time may come when Welsh medical graduates shall, after taking the degrees of their National University, arid to their qualifications a diploma certifying that they have made a special study of a disease which is so important yi their native land; the ravages of which it will to their duty to combat throughout their professional lives. It is felt that only on lines of tho closest study of the problems of tuberculosis will it become possible in the future to rid tho world of this terrible scourge.”