PLASTIC SURGEON ARRIVES

Chronicle (Levin), 20 January 1947, Page 2

PLASTIC SURGEON ARRIVES

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■ AUClvLAXD, Jan. 1!). |_ Tlie ueiv plastio surgeon to tlie jiWelliiigloii Jlospital Board, Mr. F. 1.. i Hutler, 'C.S., arrived at Auckland With iliis wit'e on tlie Pori Jackson froin I.on ; don on Saturdav.. Mr. Hutter, v liosv liome is at JDevonport, Auckland, iiabeen away froin Ncw Zcalaud snu-c 1.11)37 altliougli lie servoil witli tlu nicdical units in the Second Zea land. Divisiun in Italy, rea-lung tlie rank of iuajor. Plastic snrgery, wlii'-i' had received its inilial iinpctus in th First World War, had again made 'tremendous progress in the Secoti I ! World War, said Mr. Hutter, who lui^ recently been working at the |>lasti( unit at Kast Grimstead which is tegard. 1 ed as the foremost in tlie. world. Ex | eellent work was being done by tio unit which was uiidor ihe change oi Ihe Kew Zealander, Mr. A. H. Mclndoc, , statcd Mr. Hutler. The building was all on one lloor and a now ilepartur'was to have spocial recovery facilitierj by which patients remained ior 21 iliours under tlie supervision of th'operating surgeon in singlo bed wnrd.> equipped with all resuscitalion niea ; sures. | W-lien he left, the hospital tlie las1 Ncw Zealand servicenian tliere, an aii i man who had had a total facial re j construetion, was receiving treatnumt . | M rs. Hutter, who acconipanied he■husband, represented New Zealand ai the Plorcnce Niglitingale International jPoundatiou (ionfercnce in Kngland in ! September and also represe.ntcd iliss :M. L. Lanibie, Uirector of Nursing >Se: ' viccs, on the education conunittee on , the International Council of Nursing ■ A daughter of Mrs. W. A. lorns, oi .Wellington, M rs. Hutter was beforc hm marriage a tutor sister at the New Plymouth Hospital.