MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1368, 20 February 1912, Page 6

MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

THE CONFERENCE AT TIMARU. (Bj TelecraDh.-Soocfal Coiresoondent.- „•, , Timaru, February 19. uhe conferenco of the Xew Zealand branch of the British ifediral Association opens here to-morrow. This evening the visitors and a, gathering of townspeople listened to an address from the president (Dr. H. V. Drew, uf Timaru), and were entertained a,t a. "social." lhe president dealt briefly with various medical subjects'in a uon-technioal manner, these including consumption, cancer, insanity, the teeth, alcohol, quackery, and the British Insurance Bill. Tho keynote, in relation to diseases, was that prevention was better than euro. Ho recommended t'.\o medical insneoiion of schools, ami the distribution of plain advim refolding hygiene and the suppression of quacks. 'J]ie Stale should exercise greater powers as. to the health ol'Uio jK-ople, which ii-js (he greatest of naliounl interests .Cm.m.u's ami I'eeblo-mimM iicojik- should. Ijo prevented from, propagating tucir kind. Ifi-gaidiiit; alcohol, uone should be allowed to iw it until "1 years of jiff,-., ami that (nilh present ln\v> «n----lorcud/ sliciiUl be sufficient. A hearty role of thanks wn« accorded the speakw, or, vlu- motion uf Dr Bitliiftt. seconded Ijy Dr.'lnviu. The wmgrvss work begins in the moniing hi coiniiiitu-f. In the ufterimon uiimii. lj»r« will b... tin- guests of the Hospital lio-.ird at a ttarden party in tl»\ hospital gi-OpiuuU. \