NEW ANAESTHETIC MACHINE

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22652, 6 March 1939, Page 8

NEW ANAESTHETIC MACHINE

GIFT TO MATERNITY HOSPITAL PRESENTATION BY SIR JULIEN CAHN [THE PRESS Special Service.! 7 DUNEDIN, March 5. A gas and oxygen machine, which is specially designed for the administration of anaesthetics in maternity cases, has been presented -by Sir Julien Cahn to the Queen Mary Maternity Hospital. Sir Julien Cahn has for a considerable time been interested in the work of maternity hospitals, and has given large sums of money towards assisting their activities in the Old Country. He is also a member of a committee that Is specially interested in the provision, of safe anaesthetic methods in maternity cases. When he came to New Zealand on his present tour with his cricket team he brought with him several hospital models of a specially designed anaesthetic machine for use in maternity cases, with the intention of presenting them to institutions that were in need of them. Accompanied by Professor J. D. Dawson and Dr. John Fitzgerald, he inspected the Queen Mary Hospital to-day, and when he found that the institution was equipped with a portable model of the anaesthetic machine he immediately offered to give dne of the larger models for the use of the hospital, an offer that was gratefully accepted. The machine will be sent to the hospital as soon as Sir Julien returns to Auckland.