WOMEN DOCTORS.

Wairarapa Age, 7 January 1929, Page 5

WOMEN DOCTORS.

LIMITATIONS SUGGESTED.

COMMITTEE’S REPORT. RUGBY, January 5. The limitations placed upon the medical education of women in London hospitals are the subject of a report which has been drawn up by the committee which was appointed by the Senate of London University a year ago. This question was rendered acute at that time by the exclusion of further women students from the medical schools of the London hospitals. Sir James Purves Stewart, senior physician to the Westminster Hospital, then expressed the view that usually the ablest women forsook the profession shortly after graduating in order to marry; that some men students were disinclined to sit alongside women in medical classrooms; and that opportunities for athletics must also be less attractive in mixed schools, while inevitable distractions could not but arise from Hie continuous association of attractive young men with attractive young women in the classrooms, laboratories and wards. It is understood ihat the committee has now reported in favour of the retention of women students in London hospitals, but recommends that in order to prevent an excess of women students each hospital should take a definite quota. Dr. Graham Little, who is one of the champions of women doctors, and is a member of the committee, expressed the view to-day that any obstacle which the hospitals might put in the way of the best possible medical education for women was nothing short of a crime, in view especially of the present mortality at childbirth. —(British Official Wireless.)