MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22398, 20 October 1934, Page 14

MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL

FUNDS FOR RECONSTRUCTION HANDSOME CONTRIBUTIONS (British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, October 18. (Received Oct. 19, at 5.5 p.m.) An appeal for funds for the reconstruction of Middlesex Hospital, London, which was launched in 1924, has been completed, and the gigantic sum of £1,200,000 has now been raised. The last contribution to the fund was made by Mr Edward Meyerstein, who had already contributed £30,000 for the new department for radio therapy and a second of £70,000 to enable the board to proceed with the final section of the hospital. On taking his seat yesterday on the board of the hospital, Mr Myerstein informed his fellow members that he proposed to give himself a present. He was fond of pictures, and it was a picture outside the hospital which he desired to possess. That picture showed what was still needed to complete the new hospital, namely, £85,075. If Prince Arthur of Connaught (chairman of the board) and the other members approved, he would give them a. cheque for that amount and take the poster down. Mr Myerstein thereupon wrote out a cheque for this amount, his total contributions to the new hospital being £187,075. Mr Myerstein is a well-known philanthropist. Ho celebrated his seventieth birthday by buying a £IO.OOO estate in Kent for conversion into a maternity home. The largest contribution to the new hospital was one of £300,000 made anonymously and earmarked for a new nurses’ home, which was completed four years ago.