MEDICAL SCHOOL OPENED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20108, 15 May 1935, Page 9

MEDICAL SCHOOL OPENED

ELOQUENT MESSAGE BY KING

FEATURE OF JUBILEE FUNCTIONS British Official Wireless RUGBY, May 13. The visit of the King and Queen to Hammersmith to-day to open the British Post-Graduate Medical School, was made another happy Silver Jubilee occasion. Their Majesties, who travelled in a closed car, were cordially cheered by the crowds all the way from Buckingham Palace. Medical School Opened The new Medical School, which has been founded through the co-opera-tion of the Treasury and the London County Council, has been incorporated as the College of the University of London. It will appoint its own staff, the clinical members of which will be full-time servants of the University, and not dependent for their livelihood on private or consulting practice. Each of the four departments, medicine, surgery, obstetrics and pathology has at its head a professor with readers and assistants, and the school offers facilities for medical men from this country and overseas to put themselves abreast of the latest developments.

The King expressed the earnest hope that the school, with its happy union of ward and laboratory, university and local authority, drawing students and teachers alike from all parts of the Empire, might prosper. “May it play an Imperial role in the winning and the dissemination of medical knowledge in the relief of suffering among my peoples in this country and overseas, and in England may doctors of all lands come together in a task where all must be allies and helpers.” Duke’s Visit to Ulster The Duke of Gloucester’s brief visit to Northern Ireland concluded to-day. He received the freedom of the City of Londonderry at a civic function and later visited the Cathedral. A car-load of nine police, with loaded rifles across their knees, followed the Duke of Gloucester when he motored through the mountains, boglands and villages from Belfast to Londonderry. Police and special constables, armed with rifles, with bayonets fixed, stood at intervals along the 100 mile route, which passed within half a mile of the Free State border. A Are in the Chapter House of Londonderry Cathedral broke out while the Duke of Gloucester was en route to the Cathedral. The fire brigade raced through the crowds of spectators who were waiting to greet the Duke of Gloucester. The firemen rushed in and rescued valuable relics, while the fire was still burning, but It was under control when the Duke of Gloucester arrived. Patrick Donaghey, a 60-year-old veteran of the South African War and Great War, who was participating in the British Legion parade, collapsed and died immediately after the Duke of Gloucester’s inspection.