Show I I LADY DOCTORS ALL TilE THE RAGE IN BRITAIN Girl Students Make Up lip Materia Medica Study m LONDON Feb 11 By By 1925 It is an n. n that there will be a new an army of women doctors practicing in E Egland En England En England gland for there are nearly wom women students taking up medicine today 9 According to an administrator of one oS oSof of the biggest colleges in fn London there has never before been such a rush women students for this profession and Inquiries at two other Institutions Institutions' S Showed showed a similar state of affairs J the Women's S School hool of Medicine they tirey are full C EST LA GUERRE There are many reasons for this said an official at one Institution First there was the scarcity of men doctors brought about by the War Then there is the very large number of additional Jobs going through h t the progressive public attitude towards so social social so- so cial welfare and child life These appointments will increase from year to year as It Js is realized what great factors the clinic and the medical Inspector are In fn the educational education education- al and industrial worlds MANY MIDDLE CLASS The girls who are In training to become doctors are mostly from the middle professional class but I I know of quite a large largo number of ot wes cases cases where the girls are the daughters otrich ot or rich merchants and have determined to 10 make themselves independent Then some of them are re from the families the once leisure class who are now described 4 as the new poor In nearly every case they are girls of ot strong character and those who ar are 1 inherently of an Independent type of t mind or who have won their emancipation emancIpation eman during the war A YEAR They can do as uI much as the men and in tn some directions are more fitted fitted fit fit- j ted said a lady through whose hands many hundreds have passed andI know one girl who is now earning a year as a medical Everything depends upon personality personal personal- ity ty of course and the girl who displays displays dis- dis plays little original ability either In general practice or research has jt to content herself with a few hundreds in n a routine appointment COSTS The whole cost to make a girl a docor doctor doctor doc doc- tor or Is ab about ut and that covers her complete living expenses during the tha period of five to five and a half years of studentship She does not live at ata ata a 3 swagger hotel for that but she can get through very comfortably and is fitted for a high position in professional profession profession- a al life |