OTAGO PATHOLOGIST

Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1929, Page 2

OTAGO PATHOLOGIST

dr. ERIC BATH’S CAREER. DUNEDIN, January 4. Dr. Eric Datli, at present pathologist of the Royal Prime Allred Hospital, Camperdown, Sydney, whose appointment to the Chair of Pathology at the University of Otago was announced last week, is a graduate of Otago University and was well-known as a student lecturer and a demonstrator here. He is 31 years of age and received bis early education at the Wanganui Collegate School, matriculating in 191*1. He commenced bis medical course at the Otago Medical School two years later, but his studies were interrupted by a period of service with the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces, which lie joined in 1917. He was appointed to the laboratory branch of the New Zealand Army Medical Corps ands served in the various military laboratories in New Zealand overseas as a pathological assistant until June, 1919, when lie resumed his medical studies.

In his second professional examination be passed with distinction in the subjects of pathology, bacteriology, ana meteria nicdica and graduated in 1923. He then took up an appointment as house surgeon at the Dunedin Hospital, but early in 1924 lie commenced duty as clinical pathologist at the Otago Medical School, and in the following year be received the appointment of honorary clinical pathologist at the Dunedin Hospital. In addition lie acted as demonstrator in histology at the Medical School for one year and held a similar position in respect to bacteriology for to yea is. In April, 1928, Dr. Datli left Dunedin to take up the appointment of pathologist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, having been selected to fill that position by the conjoint Board of the Hospital and the Sydney University. This hospital is the" largest general hospital in the Southern Hemisphere and is the teaching hospital of Sydney University, and Dr. Dath’s duties there included the routine pathological work and tlie instruction of the 4tli and oth year medical students. An additional appointment he held was that of pathologist to the treatment committee of the Sydney University cancer research department. Dr Dath’s post graduate work includes clinical studies for his M.D. degree and he was credited with the clinical portion of that degree in 1925. His thesis for the same degree, which will complete the examinaion, is now in the hands of the examiners and concerns a specific diagnosis and treatment of hay fever in New Zealand.