DOMINION-TRAINED DOCTORS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1929, Page 5

DOMINION-TRAINED DOCTORS

HIGH REGARD IN ENGLAND. AUCKLAND, Sept. 24. » • .. The high regard in which young New Zealand doctors are held in England was' one of the facts noted by Sir Garrick Robertson,, of Auck- J land, during a trip to the United States of America, Canada, Great Britain.and France. Sir Garrick re- ; burned to Auckland to-day; , “While I was in London, I, met •/ about nine ex-Aucklanders doing resident work at hospitals there,” Sir Garrick said. “They all appeared to be doing very well indeed. A number .of London Hospitals seems to _keep certain resident} V ajppointments for New Zealanders. They like the type of men we send them and they have a high opinion of the training given at pfcago University Medical School. The EngiishV hospital thorities find., that, .young :New v .Zealanders come to them with more or less original ideas.” ' VIOLET RAY TREATMENT. There was a decline in the popularity of violet ray treatment in \England, Sir • Garrick said. However, much was being done in the direction of treatment of certain cases by artificial sunlight and the Results appeared to be excellent. Natural sunlight was used wherever possible, and he had been very interested in work done at Lord Mayor Treloar’s Children’s Hospital at Hayning Island. The children were taken bathing every day and then the> were placed in open-air enclosures with small coke fires to keep them warm. They lay in the sunshiny there for certain periods daily, and with the healthy tan of sunburn their health seemed to improve rapidly. U children were too sick to bathe, their bodies were sprayed with salt water, which had the effect of increasing the red blood corpuscles. There was a decided trend toward a mild surgical treatment of tuberculosis of the chest, he said. Cancer research was proceeding in all countries, but at present the combination of radium and surgical treatment was still the best method of combat-' ing the malady. The latest method . in radium treatment was the break- , i ing up of the radium and packing it round the growth.