"Compulsory Medical Schemes

"Every University visited had a Compulsory Medical Scheme. This was generally financed by a small fee and organized by the university authorities. These schemes have been running successfully for years and are taken for granted by all students."

At a special general meeting in March, 1947, a motion that "every student attending lectures at Victoria University College be required to undergo a compulsory annual medical examination" was put and carried. The only objections raised at the meeting were facetious but the storm that subsequently raged in the daily and weekly press was something to be marvelled at.

The facts were, quite simply, that a special general meeting of students had decided, among other things, that it wanted an annual compulsory medical examination for its Association members. This seems to be a simple enough statement and to indicate the use of a certain amount of common-sense on the part of said students. Imagine our surprise when we found that we were headlined in "Truth" and the daily press.