GIFT TO DENTISTRY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19868, 16 June 1927, Page 11

GIFT TO DENTISTRY

A NEW CLINIC AMERICAN’S TRIBUTE TO BRITAIN Mr George Eastman, head of the Kodak Company, has given £300,000 to provide London with a dental, tonsil, and adenoid clinic identical with that in Rochester, U.S.A. —perhaps the finest in the world. The new building will adjoin the Royal Free Hospital in Gray’s Inn Road, and it.is hoped that it will be completed within the next two years. It will probably contain fifty chairs in the main infirmary and seven in the orthodentia (tooth-straightening) department. There will also be twenty-five beds for tonsils, adenoids, and cleft-palate cases. Dr. H. J. Burkhart, who directs the 'Rochester clinic, is at present in London, making arrangements for the establishment of the new clinic. “Mr Eastman,” said Dr. Burkhart, “remarked last year that as a mark of his affection and admiration for the British people—he lived in London for some years—he would like to establish in London a dental clinic similar to the one in Rochester. “He has for many years taken a groat interest in dentistry, and particularly in the improvement of the teeth of children and expectant mothers.’’ A condition of Mr Eastman’s gift is that funds are found for the maintenance and operation of the clinic. The Royal Free Hospital, with which the clinic will be affiliated, anticipate no difficulty on this score. Mr Eastman is famous as a philanthropist. He has already given two million pounds each to the Boston Institute of Technology, the Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and the Eastman School of Music. His total benefactions amount to about eight million pounds.