MEDICAL CONGRESS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 398, 23 September 1911, Page 5

MEDICAL CONGRESS.

TIIE FEEBLE-MINDED

SHOULD HE KILLED EARLY

V AI,U AM LE P Al' KIvS REA D

]',y Toll -rajili. Pre- ion. » 'opy Received September I.T, ibid .a.m. Sydn<y. Tin!- Day. At. tho tiit-it J ('oii;!i est' an important discussion took place on tii*. tr.-sst-ment; of Ihv feeble- minded. Jlr Kisbborune advocated the iti lion of separate colonies, ami < 1 <■ i' iipni! t.hi 1 nec.ess i' y tor legislative ;n----11'rfi'rei!ee in o:oer In obee;; (lir mcreate of fceble-mindodsies?. wliicl: was the must hered i t ary of all discare--. ami to iirevi>nt tho omv.li I ion:- provitliiifor a fuUir« helpless anti halfwit tod papula! ion. Ur Stevens, nt' America, tavotm-d the Spartan idea of put »»nj: ( ° '' !: Li the feeble-minded in early h<r. Ilr said tlu-y vorr of no use to anybody. The moral aspect v.-as a onubtfai on, t jot) ami resolved it< Ifjtl t> > tin :a;: vival of the b' test. The ;:on!:,i balance notion must lie n: a 11:1 a;: a e.. The question of emascu ia. t ion «houbs also bo seriously eonsioereO. it. would materially reduce the unmoor of Miniates in prison:-- and as yin n;: : . A discussion en the % ii'iie id the tuberculin curt* lor oonmippi ion took pi ace. Sir Phillip Sydney .iones said tuberculin was very useful in certain ease:' that, were- hanpni; im>. but its indiscriminate use was positively harmful. He had seen itused m unsuitable cases with disastrous results. Dr Einkh stated 'ne be;;un the use of tuberculin in the Sydney Hospital automatically. The icsnlt was such that instructions laid been pivon to !he stall ior it:'- employ men i. in all cases of tuberculosis. Every nam her of the staff favoured it. This

coiirw was dccidco ")«>n a! trr ohservations rstcnriinjv over jour year:"Dr Si mmons' paper dead, \vi;h pulmonary d iseases a did!!;;. 1 '! the quart/. miners it; The lota! dentils from lum: disease bad r-sen from 77 ] 1 < 1 r cent. per 1 odd in the dr: d quinquennial period In id.:.:o m tielast. This was larjrely :u:nni;ited for by the increase of thuse cerli'ied as due to tuberculosis. Dr .Urosul read a paper on tropica! medical in vest i|;at ion m the past, twenty years. He was eonvim-oit ttiai the unsuitahility of a tropical climate depends mostly en tlie prevalence in diseases carried by intermediary heels, which llouririi in certain parts of the tropics. Veitew fever and malaria were both, eombatable by the o:e o> mosquito nets. Another paper dealt \vi{ls Uir sprean (if typhoid by bouse dies. H was stated that, the American Army Commission found, en;]'!.",!; the Spanish war, 'dies indicted a •-.renter loss- on the American forces than the arms o> Spain, and similarly preat losses mi the Itoer war. The use of Kerosene and blue osi in Kccpim: nown dies was advocated. Heceiveil September I'd. ld.o;> a..in. Sectional sittings oi tin- v on;:ress has concluded. Dr Weikleiu's paper emphasised the necessity for the thorough medical inspection ol immigrants. Cases of advanced consumption amongst immiprsnis were beeomni;: ominously fre~u en t.