Co-operation from hospital 'a good thing'

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Schoolboys earning good money with the hoe, thinning turnips on the Clifton Estate, South Otago, during the holidays. Photo from Otago Witness, 2.2.1910; prints available from otagoimages.co.nz.

At the meeting of the University Council yesterday afternoon, the question of increased opportunities being afforded to medical students of receiving teaching, more particularly of a practical nature in relation to the Dunedin Hospital, was accorded some attention.

The matter was introduced by Dr Church, who said the Hospital Trustees had just completed a new out-patients' department, and it would be a good thing if they could get them to co-operate with the University Council.

In accordance with notice of motion given by him, he had intended moving - "That the University Council appoint an honorary lecturer on diseases of children, an honorary lecturer on diseases of the skin, and an honorary lecturer on urinary diseases."

He would like to drop out the proposal to appoint a lecturer on urinary diseases, as they were pretty effectively treated by lectures on surgery.

They, however, had no authorised lectures on diseases of children and on diseases of the skin.

It was necessary that the council should have authorised teachers of these two important branches.

He would now move - "That the council, if necessary, co-operate with the Hospital Trustees and appoint an honorary lecturer on diseases of children, and an honorary lecturer on diseases of the skin."

Mr T. K. Sidey said he would be glad to second the motion, but he considered that they would very soon have to face the question of paying for a lecturer.

The council decided that the question of introducing additional teaching in medicine be referred to the medical faculty for a report.

• Our correspondent at Wellington gives an illustration of the imminence of the advent of wireless telegraphy into daily life.

He says that Mr Thomas Ballinger received yesterday a wireless message from his sons who are travelling from San Francisco by the steamer Mariposa.

The message was sent from the tropics.

It was handed in to the steamer's office at 2.10pm on Saturday last, sent to San Francisco by wireless, transmitted over the land lines to Vancouver, thence to Doubtless Bay by the Pacific cable, and was received at the Wellington office at 10.05am yesterday.

ODT, 8.2.1910.