MEDICAL MEN RETURN.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 225, 23 September 1929, Page 10

MEDICAL MEN RETURN.

FROM AUSTRALASIAN CONGRESS. VALUABLE WORK ACHIEVED. CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS PRAISED. Twelve hundred delegates attended the Australasian Medical Congress at Sydney, including between 30 and 40 New Zealanders, a number of whom returned by the Aorangi this morning. It is three years since the last congress, which was held at Dunedin, and attended by 800 medical , men from the Commonwealth and New Zealand. Papers and discussions on cancer occupied a good deal of the time of the congress, the whole subject being dealt with exhaustively. Maternal mortality was also regarded as one of the most important subjects. . . . ■ Dr. W. Stanley Wallis, of Rotorua, who was associated with the orthopaedic seqtion, said the conference was weli organised, and the delegates were able to obtain much useful information in whatever sphere they were engaged in. "The children's hospitals greatly impressed me," he said. "Most of my clinical work was clone in these institutions. "The follow-up system," he remarked, "is developed to a great extent. After treatment at the hospitals tlic chilurei. are grouped into districts and are called together at some central place, not necessarily a hospital, and examined from time to time by visiting doctors. A record is Urns taken of progress, and if it is found that any patient requires further treatment at hospital or otherwise, the way is paved for this'to be done. Children are watched for as long a period as three years under this system. "I and others marvelled at the dietetic system and the beautiful kitchens at the children's hospitals," he added "A specialist in dietry is employed, and the patients undoubtedly receive "reat; benefit from this department." 3' " Dr. Wallis referred to the work done in infantile paralysis research. Much had been done in serum treatment and experimental work, tho-paper j on which would bo of great value- to the profession as a whole.