MEDICAL CONGRESS.

Waikato Times, Issue 12183, 19 September 1911, Page 5

MEDICAL CONGRESS.

REVOLUTIONISING MEDICINE

FROM DARK INTO LIGHT

(Per Press Association.—Copyright.

(Received Sept. 19, 12.55 a.m.)

SYDNEY, Sept. 18

There was a brilliant gathering at the Town Hall, where Lord Denman, to-night, formally opened the Medical Congress. Dr. Pockley in his presidential address, said that now more universally and rapidly than at any time in its history, was medicine passing from the traditional and empirean and becoming more rational. The scientific discoveries made and foreshadowed, threatened not only to revolutionise medicine, but within the limits of inexorable nature, ordains profoundly after inter-racial relationships and to influence man's distribution over the face of the Globe, mainly through the knowledge of the causes and processes of microbic disease and the preventing, modifying and controlling of the action of bacterial protozal organisms. These results brought about and exhaustively revealed developments of various branches of medical science.

CONTROL OF HOSPITALS

(Received Sept. 19, y.20 a.m.)

SYDNEY, Sept. 18

The Australasian Medical Congress after disposing of formal business discussed the question of the abuse of hospitals by those able to pay. The real interest of the debate is centred on tile attitude of the profession towards the proposals recently made by Mr Flowers, acting-Chief Secretary, in favor of a general system of State hospitals.

Dr. Worrall (Sydney) hoped that whatever Ministers did the profession would fight to the last ditch a proposal which was not only adverse to the interests of medical men but also the interests of the sick poor. Dr. Nash. (Sydney) supported Mr Flowers' scheme.

The majority cif the other speakers were more favorable to the continuation of the present voluntary system. Dr. Rofoert&on (New Zealand) said that the mistake made in New Zealand hospital legislation was that they failed to adopt the primary understanding that hospitals were intended for the sick poor. The congress adopted resolutions that if Governments undertook the entire financial support of hospitals, patients who were able to obtain medical services outside hospitals should be excluded, and that boards of management should be retained.