N.Z. DOCTORS IN ENGLAND

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 38, 8 November 1937, Page 7

N.Z. DOCTORS IN ENGLAND

They Can Always Obtain Positions MEDICAL MAN'S VIEWS Lavishly appointed and staffed with doctors weli-versed in the mpst modern principles of- medical practice, new hospitals fdr th-e poor have replaced the archaic ingtitutions operating. under the Poor Law in England, This wae a startiing change noted by Dr. Prank Sliso', 'aho has returned to Dunedin afte.- spending s'" - eral years in hospital work /n London. Each of the^e 'new institutions concentrated on specialising on separate diseases, he told a reporter, and they were ,rapidly. ousting the voluntary hospitals, their contrbl being vested in the Londo'n Coanty Council, thus making them more or less State controlied. "New Zealand doctors will aiways obtain a post in England, and a good one at that," he said, "Obe reason is that when they leave the pominion fc oyerseas they have had experfence as house surgeons at the public hospitals in the four centres, thus equipping them and giving them the necessary qualifications for work in England. As opposed to this experienoe, the graduate from the English universities enters at once into pifvate practice. The Old Country is the Mecca of most New Zealanders, more going there than from AUStralia and Canada. Another factor that makes England an open sesame for clqcto.rs from the Dominion is.the intensive reseach into tL ircidence and control. of goitre Here." Dr. Sligo thought that sport filied the minds .of the people of Englana ' more than did the thought of wa'r. Their flrst consideration when they. opened the paper was tbe latest ci l 'lret scbre or ■ the . chances of the winner of the 4.30. Nevertheiess. beacuse the Contine.nt was an armed ■ cnmp, England was carjrying out her programme of rearmament witli characteristic thbroughfiess, not ohiy " for her own protection,-. but - beeanse of commitments to a-epattere'd ■ Era-' piro. There did not appear to 'be , an>- apprehension . " over compuisory' conscription, the general opinion'be,ing that only a small Standing army was necesasry, as opppSed to.the Oonw " tinental policy of arming to ihe teeth. England was more interested in making her Air FOrc© the best iii the world. " '