MEDICAL CONGRESS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 189, 9 February 1914, Page 6

MEDICAL CONGRESS

NOTABLE CATHERINE, apportioning tiik work. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Saturday. It is eighteen years since the last .meeting of the Australian Medical Congress was held in New Zealand, anil it will be eighteen years before another is held, s 0 the local doctors are determined (6 make a memorable event of the Congress which opens on Monday next. The most prominent medical men in Australia and New Zenland will attend the meeting, and in addition there will be some distinguished men from other parts of the world, a notable personage being J)r. J. A. McDonald, president of the British Medical Association, who will represent that body. The American Society of Medicine and the Canadian branch of the British Medical Association are also .sending representatives. The Governor is coming from Wellington to welcome j the guests, and members of the Cabinet will also he present.

The work of the Medical Congress lim ■; .been divided into 11 sections, each with its own president, viz—(l) Medicine, president Dr. Sinclair Gillies, Sydney; (2) Surgery, president, Mr. Hamilton Russell, Melbourne; Obstetrics and Gynaecology, president, Sir David Uardie, Melbourne; (4) Pathology, etc., president, Professor D. A. Welsh, Sydney; (5) Public Health and Medicine, president, l)r. J. R. S. Elking-toii, lirishanc; (I!) Ophthalmology, president, Dr. F. Antill Pockley; Sydney: (7) Psychological Medicine and Nenro--I°S.V> president, Dr. Shisholm Ross, Sydnep; (!)) Diseases of Children and Orthopaedics. president, Dr. [J. Swift, Adelaide; Naval and Military Medicine and Surgery, president, Colonel Charles liyar., Melbourne; (10) Dermabology, Radiology, etc., president, Dr. Harschel Harris, Sydney; (11) Laryngology, etc., president, Dr. If. Russell Nolan, Sydney. Each of the eleven sections will hold a conference every morning next week, at which papers will lie read and discussed.

A combined meeting of the Medicine and Public Health sections will be held to discuss "The diagnosis of smallpox find (lie best means of preventing its spread in the light of experience gained in the recent epidemics in Sydney ami New Zealand." Papers on tiiis subject will be read by Dr. Park, of Sydney, and Dr. Monk, of Auckland. Following the lines of the recent congress in the Old Country, a good deal of attention will ho paid the subject of venereal diseases.