MEDICAL CONGRESS
OPENING AT SYDNEY. (Australian Press Association). SYDNEY, Sept. 2. Members of the Australian Medical Congress were tendered a civic reception at the Sydney Town Hall today. The Chief City Commissioner, Mr Garlick, cordially welcomed the Now Zealand representatives. He directed attention to the fact that the infantile death rate per thousand in the Sydney metropolitan area was now only 49.3, compared with 71 when the Congress last met here in 1911, while the average death rate was only 9.3 per thousand. Sir Ewan McLean., Immediate Past President of the British Medical Association, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of‘ Wales, fittingly acknowledged the welcome on behalf of the Central Council of the Association. The Congress begins to-morrow at the University, when a discussion opens on the question: ‘What is being done in Australia towards cancer research 1”
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1929, Page 3
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138MEDICAL CONGRESS Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1929, Page 3
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