PLASTIC SURGERY
QUEEN’S TRIBUTE TO NEW ZEALANDER (Rec. 7 pm.) LONDON, July 26. The Queen praised the guidance and skill of> the New Zealander; Mr A. H. Mclndoe, surgeon in charge of the. elastic surgical unit, vvhep she opened the hew plastic surgery block of Queen Victoria Hospital at East Grinstead Surrey. This new block has been given at a cost of £IOO,OOO sterling by the British War Relief Society of America. It has five operating theatres, four of'which have students’ galleries, a library, and the most up-to-date Xray equipment in Great Britain. Mr Mclndoe performed the first operation in one of the new theatres in February. The patient was an officer of an American Flying Fortress which crashed and caught fire. The Queen referred to the. building as "a symbol of the love of freedom for humanity which unites our two peoples.’’
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26216, 29 July 1946, Page 4
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