DUNEDIN HOSPITAL

Evening Star, Issue 19454, 12 January 1927, Page 2

DUNEDIN HOSPITAL

HEW MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT DR JAMES THOMSON, GLASGOW, APPOINTED Dr James Thomson, M.A., M. 8., Ch.B., the assistant superintendent of the Glasgow Infirmary, was last night appointed as medical superintendent of the Dunedin Hospital, and a Dunedinhorn man, Dr Alexander Gillies, M. 8., Ch.B., L.R.C.P. and S., F.R.C.S. (Edinburgh) was appointed as a senior resident surgical officer. A special meeting of the Hospital Board was held to make the appointments, those present being Messrs W. E. S. Knight (chairman),!. W. Dove, G. 'Callaway, A. F. Quelch, D. Larnach, J. H. Hancock, J. W. Scurr, W. B. Morgan, and Dr Kewlands. At the invitation of the chairman, Sir Lindo Ferguson, Dr J. Fitzgerald, and Mr J. Rennio attended as representatives of the Otago University Council. Thirty-one applications were received for the position of medical superintendent, five for that of senior resident surgical officer, and two for that of medical tutor.

The appointment of a medical tutor was deferred for further consideration. The meeting made the appointments of medical superintendent and senior surgical officer in committee. Dr James Thomson, M.A., M. 8., Ch.B., was born in Scotland, and is forty years of age. He graduated in arts at the Glasgow University in 1910, and for four years was engaged in the teaching profession. From 1914 until 1919 he saw war service with the R.A.M.C., and‘for the latter half of that period acted as steward of the 58th Genera! Hospital in France. After being/demobilised Dr Thomson studied medicine at Glasgow University, and after graduating took further training nt the Glasgow Infirmary, of which he was appointed assistant superintendent in 1926. Dr Thomson has made a special study of hospital organisation, and will come to Dunedin highly recommended by Sir Donald M'Alister, principal and Vice-chancellor of the Glasgow University, and Colonel D. J. Mackintosh, who is recognised as the loading authority on hospital management and organisation in the British Isles.

Dr Alexander Gillies, M. 8., Ch.B., L.R.C.P. and S., F.R.C.S. (Edinburgh), was born in Dunedin, and is thirty-five years of age. From 1923-24 he acted as resident clinical assistant nt Craiglockhart Hospital, Edinburgh, and for nine months was resident house surgeon at the Shropshire Orthopsedic Hospital and Agnes Hunt Surgical Home. For six months he held a similar position at the Roval Southern Hospital, Liverpool. Dr Gillies was also consulting radiologist to the West Derby Union. Dr Gillies is an old boy of the Otago Boys’ High School.