MEDICAL CONGRESS
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AUSTRALASIAN YOUTHS
40 PER CENT. UNFIT FOR TRAINING.
(Received Last Night, 8.-15 o'clock.)
SYDNEY, September 20
At the M'edical Congress, Dr Purdy declared that fully forty per cent, of the youth of Australasia were unfitted for efficient military service, bulb in. tint course of a very few years, owing to the great iinr provement in the national physique effected by compulsory training, the percentage of unfits would be grtea£ly reduced.
PAPER ON ALCOHOL.
(Received Last Night, 10.20 o'clock.)
SYDNEY, September 20
T>r Haywaird read a paper dealing wato alcohol, in which ho stated t2vat, wh/ereas fornveirQiy every case of acute disea.se treated more or less with alcohol, now it was generally recognised as not necessary, except under certain definite conditions, to order for neairotic patients alcohol. It was almicst as wrong as to supply them with morphia and hypodermic syringes.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10429, 21 September 1911, Page 5
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151MEDICAL CONGRESS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10429, 21 September 1911, Page 5
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