HAWERA HOSPITAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 290, 11 December 1935, Page 6

HAWERA HOSPITAL

MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT APPOINTED DR. .1. CAIRNEY RESIGNS Dr. W. 8. Fogg, M.D., Ch.B., who for the past. IL months has been resident physician and assistant superintendent at the Hawera Hospital, has been appointed medical superintendent in place of Dr. J. Cairney, whose resignation will take effect oh January 1, 1936. The board dealt with li applications before making the appointment. Dr. Dogg received his medical education at the University of Otago, graduating M. 8., Ch.B., in 1925. In 1926 he was appointed junior lecturer in physiology in the Medical School. He was appointed house surgeon and house physician at the Dunedin Hospital in 1927, and from 1928 to 1934 he was the senior lecturer in physiology at the Medical School. In 1929 Dr. Fogg was awarded a Rockefeller travelling fellowship and spent almost a year in the United States of America' and Canada, where he visited the ;nore important medical i schools and their associate hospitals, j The Senate of the University of New j Zealand appointed him examiner in physiology for the degree of M. 8., Chi. for 1932. In 1933 he was awarded the degree of M.M., with distinction in thesis. Eleven months ago he was appointed resident physician to the Hawera Hospital, and during that time he has been closely associated with the medical superintendent. Dr. Cairney, and acted as medital superintendent during Dr. Cairney's absence on leave.