The B.M.A. at Melbourne The meeting of the British Medical
Association in Melbourne is a considerable event an itself ;- for our doctors have...only once •. before held their great annual convention outside the United Kingdom. Toronto was the tryst then, and Melbourne was its natural- successor. Such visits have a medical as well as- an Imperial value, and it is to be hoped that they may recur. The Australian Government has announced, as a step towards a permanent memorial of this one, the immediate establishment of a Federal Medical Research Council. There was an inter- esting discussion on the closing day of the problem Created by Australia's empty spaces and low birth-rate. It seems to have been accepted that the causes of the latter must be sought in economic motive, not. in physic), logical sterility. One speaker of authority declared that there was nothing physiologically. to prevent a white population from settling the tropical north.
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