PLASTIC SURGERY IN WAR

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22802, 30 August 1939, Page 8

PLASTIC SURGERY IN WAR

EMERGENCY MEASURES IN BRITAIN ' V — l . YOUNG N.Z. -SURGEON J PRAISED t • - - ‘ - ■ • ' - . / ... '.t (from otra own, cobhbspoitdlskt.) : >• LONDON, August’S.' Dr. A. H. Mcindoe, formerly of Dun- if edin, now an eminent plastic surgeon , - in London, and consulting plastic sur* ' * geon to the Royal Air Force, statedrat _ ; a British Medical Association meeting; • -. in Aberdeen, in a paper read - the surgery section, that a plan to set, s > r up special hospitals staffed by skilled - plastic surgeons, had been drawn UPby the War Office to, deal with the-r-'x rush of casualties suffering from severe facial injuries expected in the event piair raids. Emergency measures planned by the War Office aimed- at'-75*, minimising as far as possible the ter-'|.-, ?i rifle amount of work which would upon surgeons in the event of war. A - number of special hospitals had a ready been set up. ‘ “Peterborough,” in the “Daily Tele*;; - graph,” mentioned that after Dr. Me- , ‘ Indoe had given his address in Aber--y deen, he travelled all night to London,; and was on duty the next morning at -* ■ 9 o’clock for operations in hospitals- , “Attacks on .Harley street are able,” “Peterborough” added, “but th©*’ /, career of this young New Zealander not likely to offer much material fo*-/. the debunking expert. It has been one of unremitting hard work in the"United States and Britain, threefourths of it in hospitals.” •; Dr. Mplndoe is a cousin of 'Sir Harold Gillies, another New Zealander of note as a surgeon, who has just spent five weeks in Iceland, fishing. , ,