MEDICAL CONGRESS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1828, 14 August 1913, Page 5

MEDICAL CONGRESS.

PUBLIC HEALTH STATISTICS* Br Telegraph—Press Association—CopyiAnliJ London, August 12. ■ Tho International Medical Congress has closed. Tho next conference will bo hold at Munich in 1917. Mr. John Burns, President of tho Local Government Board, addressed tho Coitgitsss on 'tho relationship of modicino to public health. lie pointed out that there were 772,811 fewer deaths in England and Wales in 1909-I'JH than there would havo I>een if tho 1871-1880 death-rate had been maintained. Tho saving of lifo from special diseases cases in tho samo period amounted in number to 367,008, and the Raving of lifo during thirty-two years totalled nearly four million eases. TUBERCULOSIS. REPORT OP AUSTRALIAN ADVISORY BOARD. Sydney, August 13. Tho report of tlio Tuberculosis Advisory Board has been tabled in tlio Legislative Assembly. It recommends compulsory notification, and the issuing of certificates (o dairymen who comply with certain conditions, including tho keeping only of cows that liavo withstood tho tuberculin trst. Tubercle carriers should be kept under supervision whilst employed, and if necessary their employment should be terminated. Instruction should bs included in the school reading books, and in films at picture shows. AN INDIGNANT CORPSE* IRISH DOCTOR'S STORY. ("Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables.) (liec. August 13, G. 40 p.m.) London, August 13. , At the Jledical Congress Dr. M'Walter (Ireland) advocated that tho State should institute necropsy (post-mortem examination) in every casa of death, as tlio only possible means of ascertaining tho cause.

Recently, he related, a Dublin doctor, upon information imparted to him, gavo a certificate 'of death without viewing the body. A 1 heavy insurance was drawn by the relatives, and a "wake" was held. During tho proceedings tho corpso suddenly rose and complained bitterly that lie had not received his proper share of 'tho proceeds.