FORTUNE FOR SURGERY
FAMOUS MAYO CLINIC. GIFT OF £2,600,000. A large fortune is to be -dedicated to the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. This comprises the millions accumulated by the Mayo brothers, the world-famous surgeons, during 35 years. Dr. William James Mayo, the brother who is head of the Mayo clinic in Minnesota, has himself made the announcement. The amount available is understood to be nearly £2,600,000. Lord Dawson of Penn, Physician-in-Ordinary to the King, added to the fame of the Mayo brothers by calling them “the Heavenly Twins of Surgery.” Their clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is probably the most famous surgical clinic in tho world. It has a staff of GO surgeons, specialising in every organ of the body, and drawing incomes of which the highest is about £20,000 a year. About 130 other physicians and surgeons and 500 nurses assist the specialists.
Around the Rochester clinic has grown up a colony of sumptuous hotels. This great clinic was founded by the father of the “Heavenly Twins,” Dr. W. W. Mayo, of Beccles, Lancashire. Dr. W. W. Mayo emigrated to the United States at a time when he and his wife had to fight in hand-to-hand combat with the Indians. He started to practise in Minnesota; and his two sons followed him, taking over his hospital and making it, by their brilliant surgery, the greatest of its kind in America.
The Rochester hospital is run on a religiously equitable basis. It places its vast resources of talent and appointments at the disposal of rich and poor alike, levying a tariff of 10 per cent, of the sworn income of the patient. Thus the millionaire pays £so'oo for the operation which the “down-and-out" gets for nothing. The Mayo clinic receives neither public subscriptions nor legacies. Its staff performs 7600 operations per year. The brothers have been honoured by both Leeds and Manchester Universities. •
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1930, Page 10
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