THE QUALIFICATIONS OF MAS. SEURS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1500, 24 July 1912, Page 6

THE QUALIFICATIONS OF MAS. SEURS.

Sir,—My attention lias been called to a correspondence which has recently been conducted in your columns between a Mrs. Creighton Halo (June 5) and Mr. Royd Garlick (June 8), the honorary secretary Jbf tho Wellington Branch of the Australasian Massage Association, as to tho training qualifications of masseurs and masseuses. The Australasian Massage Association was established some vears ago by tho medical profession in Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney, in conjunction with tho leading masseurs anil masseuses throughout the Commonwealth, in order to secure for tho public that skill and reliability in massage which are now recognised ns .of very great value in many medical and surgical cases. The result was tho present association, .with the two years' curriculum detailed in Mr. Garlick's letter. This curriculum, just as in medicine and nursing, took tho education out of private and interested hands, and obtained tho co-operation of the universities and leading public hospitals, and placed massage upon a footing equal to any other in the world. Your readers may, I am sure, accept the fact that tho Deans of tho Faculties of Medicine and tho Professors of Anatomy and Physiology in the Universities of Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney, and the leading medical men of the leading hospitals all join in the responsibility of originating and carrying out its requirements as sufficient-proof of its sufficiency amV efficiency.

The* Dominion of New Zealand was Tin - able to oome in at the time of inception because it had not fio necessary medical school, and local difficulties steed in the wav of outsiders selecting any one city as the headquarters. Hence iis members accepted the temporary nortinn of branches of the Australasian Association. The time, however, has evidently come when New Zealand should have an L ciation of its own. Wo of Australasia wish yon every success in such an undertaking, and are sure '.hat. you will formulato a courso of study and training at least: equal to our own, and one which we will he to rccinroeally recognise and to affiliate with. Thanking you for your courtesy.—T am. etc., J. TV. SPTJIXGHOPI2. M.A., M.D.. 0 President Australasian Massage Association. Melbourne, July 10.