N.Z. HOSPITALS

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11784, 21 March 1924, Page 6

N.Z. HOSPITALS

AND DUNEDIN MEDICAL SCHOOL. PRAISE FROM DR MAYO. ‘Your hospitals axe fine,” declared Dr W J. Mayo, in his address to the Rotary Club yesterday. He. and his party, he stated, had visited, the Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin hospitals; and while many of the buildings were old, they were all well lighted and ventilated. On the whole. Le believed that our hospital superintendents were superior to those in America. He had seen the beautiful private hospitals of Dr Herbert, Dr Young, and others, and some Catholic hospitals—one in Chnstchurch, at Lewisham, a beautiful one, as also was another up in Auckland. Of what had impressed him personally most of anything ho had seen, he would put first the Meddoal School in Dunedin. (Applause.) Fifty per cent, of the doctors in New Zealand were graduated at our own school in Dunedin; and one medical school was enough for our present population. We would need a population of three to five millions before wo could think of another such school. (Hear, hear.) What impressed him most about the echool was the ’character of the teaching and of the men carrying on the teaching, and the fine buildings, also the proposed fine now building, tlifi plans for which he had seen, and the research work going on there. We had got a capable man down their© whom he didn t think the people of New Zealand knew- a man called Herons —who was doing splendid research work, and whom he thought we would have difficulty in keeping here. (Applause.) They had learnt down there a lot about hydatids amongst other things. Then right here in Wellington, under Colonel Hunter, we had 25 to 80 young ladies learning how to take care of children’s teeth, putting in fillings, etc. They were doing very good work indeed whiqh wotfld redound greatly to the benefit of the rising generation (Applause.)