Medical Association.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 212, 8 March 1895, Page 3

Medical Association.

[Per Press Association] Cheistchurch, March 7. The Medical Copgress sat till after midnight last night. It was decided to es establish a New Zealand Medical Benevolent Fund. Rules were adopted and officers elected A letter was read from the Rev. F W. lsitt, President ot the Prohibition League, asking if the congress would deliver an opinion on physiological effects of alcohol, and state whether in its opinion its lree use as a beverage was conducive to health or roverse. After considerable discussion the following reDly was ordered to be sent, " That the New Zealand Medical Association is desirous of giving a courteous reply to the ProL.bition League, but feels that the question asked as to free use of alcoho 1 , which the Association takes to mean the excessive use, appears to carry on the face of it its own answer, and the Association feels also that the question of the physiological action of alcohol opens too wide a field for consideration at this meeting with the limited time at its disposal.". Dr. Barrett was authorised to enter into communication with the Australasian medical journals with a view to amalgamation. He was re-elected editor of the New Zealand Medical Journal. At the Congress a long report on typhoid fever and its causes was read by Dr. Thomas. It was decided that tuberculosis and cancer should be the next subjects for investigation, and that the Otago branch should undertake the work and report to the next Congress.