MEDICAL CONGRESS
MEETINGS TO BE DISCONTINUED. Brisbane, August 30. The Medical Congress, at its closing session, adopted a resolution that the principles which underlay tho success of the military and public health adnr'nistration durilng the war could bo adopted in civil life. Other resolutions favoured. the establishment of a chair of Preventive Medicine at each Australasian University; that Vie campaign for preventive medicine should be made, real' nnd effective; that hygiene should be taught in all classes in all schools, with complelo medical inspection of children; that the Federal nnd State Governments should take action to deal with thei menace of venereal diseases; and favouring the formation of a section of surgery in each branch of the British Medical Association m Australia and New Zealand. ft was announced that a ballot had been taken nnd resulted in favour of discontinuing the' meetings tof tho congress. The Execntivo Commence -was authorised to lake st&ps to wind up the affairs of the congress—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 290, 1 September 1920, Page 7
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162MEDICAL CONGRESS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 290, 1 September 1920, Page 7
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