BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 August 1915, Page 3

BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

RECOMMENDATIONS TO GOVERNMENT. By Telegraph.—Press Association Wellington, Yesterday. Important resolutions passed by the British Medical Association in New Zealand have been forwarded to the Defence Department. The association promises to endeavor to assist to make up the shortage in the staffs of the general hospitals, and urges that suflhiient recently qualified medical men be retained in the Dominion as house surgeons to public hospitals to maintain them at the original numerical strength. The association is unable to promise to make u.p the shortage of medical men in country districts, fat each division will render as much assistance as po'ssible. Provided no doctor is asked to leave his district the branch will endeavor to give temporary assistance at camps and hospitals, provided doctors' ordinary duties are not unduly interfered with. The multiplication of small is deprecated.

Tlie association recommends that a central military hospital be provided in Wellington, from which sick and wounded soldiers be sent to their own districts, that all invalided soldiers be placed in separate wards or convalescent homes under military discipline, and that it is desirable to send Home one or more hospital units in place of the 100 medical officers asked for by the Imperial authorities.