WOMEN DOCTORS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1929, Page 2

WOMEN DOCTORS

FACILITIES FOR EDUCATION, vßritish Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Jan. 4. The limitations placed upon the medical education of women in the London hospitals are the subject of a report which has been drawn up by a committee which was appointed by the Senate of the London University some years ago. This question was rendered acute at that time by tlie exclusion of further women students from the medical schools of the London hospitals. Sir James Purves Stewart, senior physician to Westminster Hospital, then expressed the views that usually tlie ablest women forsook tlie profession shortly after graduating in order to marry, that some men students were disinclined to sit alongside women in the medical classrooms, and that opportunities for athletics must also he less attractive in mixed schools, while inevitable distractions could not but arise from the continuous association of attractive young men with attractive young women in the classrooms, laboratories and wards. It is understood that the Committee has now reported in favour of the retention of women students in London hospitals, but recommends that, in order to prevent an excess ol women students, each hospital should take a definite quota. Dr Graham Little, who is one of the champions of women doctors, and is a member of the committee, expressed the view to-day that, any olmtade which hospitals might put in the way of the best possible medical education lorwomen. was nothing short of a crime, especially in view of the present mortality in childbirth.