BRITISH MEDICAL CONGRESS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19248, 30 July 1932, Page 8

BRITISH MEDICAL CONGRESS

IMPORTANT SPEECHES AT CENTENARY DINNER. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received July 29, 7 p.m.) LONDON, July 29. The Prince of Wales was the guest of honour at the centenary dinner of the British Medical Association, one of the largest ever held in London. Two thousand guests were present at Albert Hall. The Prince emphasised the Imperial aspects of the Association’s work and said it was encouraging to think how many overseas members were present.

Dr Newlands, as president of the Australian and New Zealand College of Surgeons, responded on behalf of the guests.

The day's general discussion at the Medical Association’s meeting was largely devoted to the characteristics and management of post-war Children. Mr C. H. Blakiston, headmaster of St. Mary and St. Nicolas College (Lancing College), in a startling critic* ism of the modern boy, said that in comparison with the boy of thirty years ago. he was timid, untruthful and dishonest. He expects to be taken everywhere. Above all, he fears loneliness and boredom. Consequently the old spirit of adventure has been destroyed. The War had a definite result on those who were infants in 1914-18. Consequently there is a large number of young people who work feebly and play feebly. Dr W. H. Simpson of Wellington. New Zealand, read a striking paper on subclferai injections Which is a new operation for the detachment of the retina and is likely to replace existing methods.