WAR AND PUBLIC HEALTH

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 285, 26 August 1920, Page 5

WAR AND PUBLIC HEALTH

VALUE OF INOCULATION. Brisbane, August 25. Dr. Taylor, in Jiis presidential address at the Medical Congress, dealt with naval and military medicine and siirgery. He said Hint compound fractures and bono injuries had left an immense legacy of patients with food for nepsiti in their bones, necessitating judicious operative'treatment for years to came. Protective inoculation against the enteric group of diseases was bound to have Jarreaching beneficial results in civilian life in Australia. Thanks to inoculation, there were only 266 deaths from such diseases in all the British armies iu France, as against ten thousand deaths among British troops in the South African War.—Press Assn. MATERNITY IoSPITALS REDUCE MORTALITY. (Roc. August 25, 7.5 p.m.) Brisbane, August 25. Before tjhe Medical Congress, _ Dr. Barrinetoii read a paper dealing with birth problenis. He showed thuf in hospitals and properly conducted institutions the ' use of anaesthetics and antiseptics, awl non-meddlesome widwifery, resulted in an enormous reduction of morbidity, and mortality. On the other hand, in outside institutions mothers and babies suited almost as much as in. the past. He stated that it was cm established fact that a cortain disease caused .30. to 5U per cent, of the childless marriages and 20 pel' cent, of the blindness m infancy.Press Assn.