SUPPLY OF DOCTORS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1339, 29 May 1918, Page 5

SUPPLY OF DOCTORS.

DIFFICULTY AHEAD. EFFECT OF SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS ISptcial to Th* Sun.] WELLINGTON. Ma\ 28. Las! week the Director-General of Medical Services paid a visit In the Medical School at Dunedin, where the Medical Officers' Training Corps is producing a certain number of young doctors ;<r service with the Expeditionary Forces. General Henderson i> imnresed with the importance oi tiiis school, and with the loss thai New Zealand has suffered on account ol a short-sighted policy in the earlier stages of the war. Many nt' the students, who i-i the ordinary course Hi events would have become iuii\ rpi.dilietl doctors, were allowed to enlist. Other youths who had jest entered upon their medical course were drawn in the ballot, exemniion being given only I • those who had made some progress in their studies. This was a short-sighted policy. f"i' t'i-iia\ New Zealand is not training rcaih as mam doctors as are rctpurcd. and the outlook for the folure decidedh hail, owing to the lack of fresh students. It is in the interests of the wlmle country 'l'd Hie Medical S.-h-.<il should be i'u!!. even ii' that mean* grafting exemption I • some 111 ii : - 1 Division n i ". The \oung do.-ti.rs i. come • vailahle ! ir miliian sei vice as s ion as lh.\ have completed their studies.