WOMEN SURGEONS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 270, 11 August 1919, Page 4

WOMEN SURGEONS

EMPLOYMENT IN DOMINION HOSPITALS. Tho appointment of women as house surgeons at public hospitals is mentioned in. tho journal of tlie Public Health Department. "On account of the annually increasing number of women who are entering the ranks of the medical profession, consideration lias been (riven to tho question of tho employment of these graduates in tho public hospitals of tho Dominion," says the journal. "Tho Department has recently approached tho boards in tho four centres, asking whether they arc prepared to consider tho advisability of making accommodation or somo other arrangement whereby women doctors might obtain experience at their hospitals ns house surgeons. Tho result of this has been that tho Auckland Hospital Board has advi'ed that it will provide accommodation for women doctors in the contemplated extension of the nurses' home.

"The Wellington Hospital Board is willing, on the advice of the medical superintendent, to employ a woman house surgeon nt the eye, ear, and throat ward. Accommodation, however, for such officer would have to be found outside the hospital. The North Canterbury Board advises that there is no accommodation at the hospital for women house surgeons, and such has not been deemed necessary in view of past experience. There are at present women houso surgeoncies, and the necessary accommodation for such, existing at the Dunedin Hospital. It would bo well that tho larger hospital boards bear in -mind tho necessity of providing accommodation in tho future for house surgeons in such a way that vacancies may bo filled by members of either sex."