A GREAT CLINIC CITY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5371, 7 January 1929, Page 3

A GREAT CLINIC CITY.

WORK OF MAYO BROTHERS. EQUIPMENT WORTH £1,600,000. The city of Rochester, Minneapolis, has no street cars. The reason fs> that they would be too, noisy for this hospital city established by the Mayo brothers. Opened last summer at a cost of £60*0,000, this is; the only clinic city in the United States. Quite in keeping with its purpose, the city greets the visitor with the soft tones of a carillon, the first west of Chicago from a to.wer of 300 ft. above the streets. More than 60,000 patients from all parts of teh world*, are now being treated.. The main building of the cjinie, jvhich contains the carillon, is 13 storeys. Their 23 bells range in weight up to four tons; their total weight is 18 tons. The first eight floors ar.e devotefi to clinical uses. The eleventh is ured as- an assembly room. .

The Mayo brothers, who have visited Australia and New Zealand, of a famous family. Their father, Dr. William Worral Mayo, a physician and surgeon in Rochester, was torn in England, descended from John Mayo, who, in the seventeenth century, was one of the; first physician chemists to work towards the rediscovery of oxygen. Thomas Mayo, who died in 1871, was, president of the Royal College of Physicians; Herbert, his brother, was one of the founders cf the Middlesex Medical School.

In 1819, the first year after the war, there-were 60,645 registrations of patients at the clinic, in that year Drs. Will and Charles, as they are known, established the Mayo Foundation, “to the end and in the faith that the clinic and its operations and its privilege and- opportunities ;to serve humanity may survive the; donors, and that it may be conducted, maintained, and developed for the purposes specified . . • and at all

times in accord with the highest professional standards.” The value of the Mayo equipment is now assessed at £1,600,000.

This year 32 were awarded the foundation fellowships, with light to live at the clinic and study one. two, or three A Canadian woman is included among this year’s fallows.