LONDON HOSPITALS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3942, 1 October 1929, Page 9

LONDON HOSPITALS.

NEW ZEALANDERS IN DEMAND. TRIBUTE TO OTAGO MEDICAL SCHOOL. AUCKLAND, September 24. The high regard in which young New Zealand doctors are held in England was one of the facts noted by Sir Carrick Robertson, of Auckland, during a trip which embraced the United States. Canada, Great Britain, and France. Sir Carrick returned to Auckland to-day having arrived at Wellington bv the Maunganui on Monday.

“While I was in London I met about nine ex-Aucklanders doing resident work at the hospitals there," Sir Carrick said. “They all appeared to be doing very well indeed. A number of London hospitals seem to keep certain resident appointments for New Zealanders. They lik<the type of men we send them, and they have a high opinion of the training given at the Gtago Medical School. The °Eng lish hospital authorities find that young New Zealanders come to them with" more or less original ideas.”

There was a decline in the popularity of the violet ray treatment in England. Sir Carrick said. However, much was being done in the direction of the treat ment of certain cases by artificial sunlight, and the results appeared to be excellent. Natural sunlight was used wherever possible, and he had been very interested in the work done at the Children's Hospital at Hayning Island. The children were taken bathing every day. and then they were placed in open-air enclosures with small coke fires to keep them warm. They lay in the sunshine there for certain periods daily, and with the healthy tan of sunburn their health seemed to improve rapidly. If the chil dren wore too sick to bathe their bodies were sprayed with salt water, which had the effect of increasing the red blood corpuscles.

There was a decided trend towards a mild surgical treatment of tuberculosis of the chest. Cancer research was proceeding in all countries, but at present a combination of radium and surgical treat ment was still the best method of com bating the malady. The latest method in the radium treatment was the break ing up of the radium and packing it round the growth.