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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington N.Z. Vol. 11, No. 1. February 27, 1948

B.M.A. Proposes . .

B.M.A. Proposes . . .

"The most important item to be provided is:

Medical examination for all first year students, with a view to pointing out any defects and indicating a suitable course of physical activities. Optional examinations after the first year. The examinations to be of an advisory nature, and a poor report would not debar a student from attendance at University ..."

"This programme . . . could be put into operation with a minimum outlay on materials and buildings. A second point in its favour is that the Government is interested in this kind of necessary work, and all efforts should be made to bring the New Zealand Universities into line with the rest of the world."

On June 23, 1943, in an article headed "Anti Grave-Digging" Salient gave the initial impetus to what is now widely known in the College as the Health Scheme or the Medical Scheme. "A large body of V.U.C. students who realise the value of periodical physical check-ups as a necessary feature of student life, and a safeguard of the students' future, College life brings together students from all sections of the community, imposes severe mental and physical demands on the individual . . . Periodical physical examinations can detect much concealed disease at an early stage in its career and by bringing the disease under early control save the student from future sorrows and the treatments needed if the disease continues unchecked.

The proposal that a 900 part-time Medical Adviser be appointed to V.U.C. has been put forward. This Medical Adviser would undertake to give a general medical examination to all students enrolling at Victoria University College, to be followed by periodical overhauls in subsequent years."