THAMES HOSPITAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5030, 22 September 1926, Page 1

THAMES HOSPITAL

MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT.

QUALIFICATIONS OF DR. SOWERBY

Dr. AV. Sowerby, the newly appointed medical superintendent of the Thames Hospital District, has commenced duty.

Dr. Sowerby, with his wife and two children, come’ to Thames from Queen Mary’s Hospital, Hamner Springs, where he has held the post of medical officer under the Public Health Department since 1922. After winning the New Zealand Medical Travelling Scholarship in 1913, at the completion of a year’s service at the Dunedin Hospital as House Surgeon, Dr. Sowerby was attached to the Middlesex Hospital, England, where he was awarded the New Zealand Scholarship. At the end of a year he accepted a post at Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases, later going on to the Paddington Green Children’s Hospital as acting resident medical dfficer. His next appointment was with the R.A.M.C., with whom he served for two years in Fraince as regimental officer to the R.G.A. He then transferred to the N.Z.M.C.,.with which he served for over a year at the Codford. Command Depot and the Brockenhurst No. 1 N.Z. General Hospital.

On his. discharge from the Army Dr. Sowerby gained the degree of F.R.C.S. at Edinburgh, returning to New Zealand in 1920, prior W holding the post of R.M.O. at Apia, Samoa, for nine months. In January, 1922, he concluded a nine months’ locum tenens for Dr. D. Steven, of Stratford, where he had charge of the Stratford District Hospital.

For the last tnree years he has been acting as medical to Queen Mary Hospital, Hammer Springs, relieving Dr. P. Chisholm as medical superintendeiht during his absence in England for the past eight months.