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DOCTOR REFUSED REINSTATEMENT.

ANAESTHETIST TO SIR H. BARKER.

Dr. F. W. Axham's application, at the age of 86, to be reinstated us a member of the Royal College

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

PHYSICAL TRAINING,

A BADLY TAUGHT SUBJECT.

2,000 MILES TO HOSPITAL

-PATIENT'S LIFE SAVED BY AEROPLANE.

Physical training was the

A thrilling story of how an En- worst taught subject in the cur- riculum in secondary schools, de-glishwoman was saved by French boen bitten by a dog suffering clarad Mr. E. R. Thomas of airmen in Nigeria after she had from rubios has just reached Lon- don.

of Surgeons has been refused, Newcastle, at the Headmastors' leaving him still under an impli-conference opened at Shrewsbury ed stigma of being guilty of "in-recently.

The report of his Majesty's In- famous professional conduct." The conduct for which he was re- spector of Physical Training for moved from the medical register 1923, he continued, showed that and deprived of membership of the training was inefficient in the college WOM acting as nearly 80 per cont. of schools anaesthétist to Sir (then" Mr.) visited.

Barker, Herbert

the famous Physical training, when impro- bonesetter. Since then Bir Her-parly carried out, was worse than Yot there existed in bert Barker has been honoured useless. with a knighthood, but the doctor England no centre for instruction still lies under the shadow of of teachers of it. Any English- official disapproval.

man, who wanted to take the matter up seriously must needs go to Sweden or Denmark for training.

It is authoritatively stated that the decision of the council of the Royal College of Surgeons was

Mr. Thomas added that he due to the fact that Dr. Axham,! in applying for reinstatement, looked forward to the time when did not admit that he had done the English universities would wrong in breaking the by-laws of have a coure of study as an in- the collego. It was felt that if tegral part of a degree course the council accepted the view suitable for those who proposed that subsequent events-the hon-to take up physical training in our bestowed on Sir Herbert schools.

A resolution welcoming the Barker by the King-justified his conduct they would automatical arrangement by the Board of ly acknowledge the wrongfulness Education of a short course for

of the by-law. This was a doctor's teachers of rhis subject was dilemma out of which the coun-carried. cil could see no way..

Mr. S. F. Cowell, secretary, of the college, told a Daily Post re- presentative recently that he did not think there was any possibi- lity of the matter being raised again for a year at least.

SIR HERBERT BARKER'S OPINION.

NATIONAL DISASTER." In the evening the conference went into private session to resolution dealing considor & with the threatened supersession in public schools of "Soccer" by Rugby football.

Mrs. Smith, the wife of a real- dent British official, stationed in Nigeria, was bitten by a dog at Dosso, in 'French West Africa. Dosso is miles The dog was suspected of having hydrophobia.

from the nearest hospital, and Mrs. Smith's friends despaired of obtaining appropriate medical treatment for her in time,

At the last moment a telephone call was rushed through to Nia- mey, in French West Africa, and left by a swift car for Dosso. He the French official stationed there was accompanied by a veterinary surgeon, M. Suzeau. When the two Franchmen reached Doane they learned that eighty horsemen had scoured the countryside in search of the dog, and had even- at some distance from the town. tually found its corpse in a wood M. Suzeau incpocted the body, and found that the dog, in fact, had had hydrophobic.

The nearest Institute dealing with cases of rabies was at Dakar, and it was two thousand miles away. It seemed almost hopeless but a telegram was despatched to get the patient there in time, to the French Governor at Dakar.

He was

As soon as he received the tele.! gram he called up Bamako an aeroplane station, and asked that two aeroplanes should proceed at full speed to Dosso. afraid that one of these auroplanes might break down on the way, and be compelled to make a forced landing, and it was for this reason that he sent two machines.

The matter was raised by the Rev. Canon H. A. P. Sawyer, of Sir Herbert Barker, interview. Shrowsbury, who presented the ed abroad, said: "I am more following resolution: the rival profoundly sorry than I can say merits of Rugby and Association That Dr.. Axham's name has not football, or critcising the action been restored to the medical re- of any school which has already gister. It is truly a heartbreak- changed from one to the other wholesale EL ing affair. A well-known Harley- considers street surgeon hats just written defection of public schools from to Rugby football to me saying that he had talk-Association ed the matter over with hundreds would be a national disaster.

that

of doctors, and has not met a The discussion was lively and single one who was not strongly in favour of his reinstatement. I am quite willing. to go before the General Medical Council per- sonally, and I am in favour of a petition to his Majesty.

The two aeroplanes therefore had a neck to neck race to Dassu, and the first one to arrive took the patient to Dakar.. The jour ney was made in two days, and the Englishwoman's life was saved.

At its conclusion a amusing, statement was issued to the effect

Dosso is some, miles from the that the conference felt that it would be regrettable if there were frontier of Sokoto, in the Northern anything in the nature of a region of British Nigeria. social cleavage in the matter of football.

"A famous titled K. C. has written me saying, that if Dr. It also welcomed the opportuni- Axham will take his case t'aies which at present existed for higher court he will defend him hays of every social type to play and charge no fee whatever for games against each other, and his services, so deeply does he hoped it might be possible to feel for him."

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