MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
•.Tb.e'annual ineeting of the New Zealand; branch -ot- the .^ritish 'Medical Associatiop? was - cbn'tirtned to-day, at the City Counciii C_&n\bers7~i)y WV- the president, o^piedri?ie/chair.77 .7 p 7 *j V lh Xpxhy King brought up the report qt. the subcommittee appointed to make re-f commendations with regard to the institutional H^reatment of, /.inebri- , ety and 'epilepsy*. j*"*The "-sub-committee recommended that each' branch of the Associ-. tion should^talre in hand measures for checking tuberculosis? on the lines adopted r. by the>tri'uneipaUti(&s'of''Glasgow J Berlin and other places ; that* tsie "should .'• agree " to:uae*U"ineahs iin -Jils powe'i* i t'o secura--*i*uch..:help^in; th*?. treathient -of ■''•inebriety;*? ;tfpilepsy.rand -constiunptioh by 'the' establish- • -?nient*j ot; siiitable. homes ;-thAt there Vhould .'j Iba included- in tbe <*scho6l \ curriculum.- : of ..' ! eveiy. State institution' instradtion *in thq. simple and essential requirebients? for more healthy/living; -that a depntatioh Ishouldi •tfait .on. the/Premier- to bring the -views'of -th« Awociation,;b'_fpre_il'in)i ':';. that; the paipers ■^ad-by l)r Cblqiihoun and Dr Ifvihgshbuld •b.e.»-sent td thei,locaUpap«w->iorApublication*, and, to., thft.rne^paper't.in .the chief centres of the; ; ool«Q;iiS O^V*i Z7 7 \^, ,&,„-.}. oMfrv Connolly^ -ee^ded -by^Dr'Newell, the .report .was 'adopted. ,7 - v** Dris Mason, .„ Saunders, .Fell and •;. Scott, . with .power to add lb, their number, were Appointed a deputation, to-. ys;aifr. ; pn- ; ,,thej« premier.,. .-- ■ ■•-<* .-•..■.•-■'.:.-•■. -- ■hu&.-.yy fAyf.. - The* annual -reports of .the- Benevolent and '■Defence^pFupds; w^ere preßented^by.pr: I^vmg^,aniivao^i^^ : - -''*'•• < *v . :,"- ; "i 7Ds TiubyV Kingj- then read.. a,; papejjyoii the treatment: of insanity. p At 1 p.m< the meeting adjourned. y' Mrs Smith, of Grftnth'am, who has jiisfc celebrated her one and-khird-Awtai-day, is in excellent health, arid .seldom misses Mrs^Stacey -"his "died Vt Sherbdrne; in - l*\er one- Fundrfcd and 'third ■ yeaiv- Her, husband;, wh<? di,ed iimAyiyeAr^agii,'^^ *-*' wll-to-da yeoman^ .
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6727, 23 February 1900, Page 3
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