MEDICAL CONGRESS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 33, 23 September 1911, Page 5

MEDICAL CONGRESS.

CUBE FOR CONSUMPTION. Sydney, September 22. The Medical Congress discussed the value of tho tuberculin cure for consumption. . .n Sir Phillip Sidney Jones said that tuberculin was very useful in certain cases that were hanging fire but its indiscriminate use was possibly harmful. He had soen it used in unsuitable cases with disastrous result’s. Dr. Finch stated that ho had begun the use of tuberculin in tho Sydney hospital automatically, and the result was sucli that instructions had been given to the general sta'flyfpr its employment in all ctscs of tuberculosis. Every member of the staff favoured it. This course had been decided upon after observations' extending over four years. PLUMON .\AY DISEASES. Dr. Simmons read a paper, which dealt will pulmonary dciseases amongst quartz miners in Bendigo. The total deaths from lung disease had risen from 77 per ] 0,000 in tho first quinquennial period to 155.1 in the last. This was largely accounted for by tho increase of those certified to as due to tuberculosis. TROPICAL DISEASES.

Dr. Breiul gave a paper on tropical medicine investigation of tho past twenty years. He was convinced that the unsuitability of the tropics depended mostly on the prevalence of diseases carried by intermediary hosts, which flourish in certain parts of tho tropics. Yellow fever and malaria were both combatable by the use of mosquito nets. FLIES AND TYPHOID. Another paper dealt with the spread of typhoid by house flies. It stated that the American Army Commission found that during the Spanish war flies inflicted greater loss on the American forces than did tho arms of Spain. There were similarly great losses in the Boer war. The use 01 kerosene and blue oil for keeping down flies was advocated. THE FEEBLE-MINED. Received 23, 9.10 a.m.) Sydney, September 23. At tho Congress an important discusion took place on tho feeble-mind-ed. Dr Fishbourne advocated the creation of separate colonics, and dwelt on the necessity of legislative interference in order to cn Nk the increase of feeble-mindedness, which was tho most hereditary of all diseases. To prevent the conditions of providing the future with a helpless halfu ittod population, Dr Stevens (America) favoured the Spartan idea of putting to death tho feeble-minded early in life. Ho was no use to anybody. The mental balance of a nation must, be maintained. It would materially reduce the number of inmates in prisons and asylums. IN SPECTION OF I MMIGHANTS. (Received 23, 10.35 a.m.) Sydney, September 23. The sectional sittings of tiro congress have concluded. Dr Weihen, in a paper, emphasised the necessity of the thorough medical inspection of immigrants. The cases of anvanced consumption amongst immigrants were becoming ominously frequent.