A HIGH EXAMPLE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16622, 13 April 1928, Page 7

A HIGH EXAMPLE

N.Z. HOSPITAL SYSTEM NOTED SURGEON’S PRAISE (Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. With a wide experience of hospital work, both at Home and in India, Sir James Reid Roberts, the famous surgeon Who is at present on holiday in New Zealand, considers the Dominion sets a high example alike in system and efficiency. (‘I am a great admirer of New Zealand’s public health system and also her medical institutions,” he said in an interview. . The general standard of public health in Auckland and in other parts of New Zealand was another subject to which Sir James Roberts made interesting reference. He said, the fight against tuberculosis was being Waged successfully all over the world, and in England now the death rate under this head was as low as 10 per 10,000 of the population. This, however, was high when compared with the New Zealand rate, which was only .1.7, the lowest by far of any country in the- civilised world. Sir James referred to the prophecy of the president of the British Medical Association that tuberculosis would probably be extinct, in 30 years. That, he said, was not au exaggerated statement. Questioned with regard to cancer he said the increase in the registered mortality was due;’in' ; a great measure to; the ,greater longevity - amongst all classes of 'the population. He was not- alarmed by the cancer figures, and did not think they showed cause for alarm.