MEDICAL CONGRESS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 257, 23 October 1908, Page 3

MEDICAL CONGRESS.

DOCTORS AND Till-. VVMAO. THE MATTER OF CHARGES. Melbourne, October 22. The Australasian Medical Congress carried a resolution that hospitals maintained by eharilable donations and Government grants should bw free to patients, and that t-licse patients should sign a declaration of inability to afford to pay for medical attendance. A resolution was adopted: "That no medical man should pass for admission to a friendly society or association for professional attendance at contracL rates any person whose income from all sources exceeds £4 a week; that no medical man should attend at iniitr.ie' rates any manlier ol r; ir.vndly societv whose, income exceeds Cli a uvek." Dr. Ma-on. Chief Health Officer of New Zealand, delivered a paper i.'iitilled. "Sidelights on the Work of a Health Officer.''

PAPER ON COXSI'JIPTIOX. Received 22. 1 a.m. Melbourne, October 22. At the Medical Coiigre.-s. Dr. Puilton (South Australia) read a paper on surgery in tuberculosis, hi six veals, out of 181!) cases of tuberculosis in 111-' Adelaide linsjiil-.il*. -12 per cent suffered from lesions (an injury or wound) other than from le-ions of the lungs—and of 4032 death in tire Commonwealth, over lit per cent, were caused similarly.