DOCTOR CHOSEN

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20987, 14 December 1939, Page 10

DOCTOR CHOSEN

MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT WAIKATO HOSPITAL POST DR. H. L. GOULD, OF HUNTLY Formerly acting-Medical Superintendent of the Auckland Hospital and a trainee in hospital administration at Vancouver General Hospital, I*r. H. L.. Gould, who is at present in private practice at Huntly, was appointed by the Waikato Hospital Board to-day to the post of Medical Superintendent of the Waikato Hospital. The position was formerly held by the late Dr. M. M. Hockin. The The board considered nine applications from New Zealand and overseas, the discussion being taken in committee. Although Dr. Hockin combined the duties of superintendent and physician, the position of medical superintendent is now purely administrative in view of the recent growth of the Waikato Hospital. Dr. R. S. A. Graham, who has been actingsuperintendent since Dr. Hockin’s death, was appointed last month as director of surgery, and for that reason he did not apply for the post of superintendent in view of the purely administrative duties involved. Dr. Gould’s Career Dr. Herbert Leslie Gould is 47 years of age. He qualified M.B.Ch., B. in 1915, and he has had three years of house surgeon work at Dunedin, Napier and Auckland Hospitals. Dr. Gould was trained in hospital administration at the Vancouver General Hospital under Dr. MacEachern. For nine years he was as-slstant-Medical Superintendent at the Auckland Hospital, during which period he was acting-Medical Superintendent for six months. His duties during that time were almost wholly administrative, and they included the planning of the new block. When he takes up his duties at the Waikato Hospital it can be expected that several big tasks of hospital block planning will face him in the future. Since leaving the Auckland Hospital Dr. Gould has been in private practice at Huntly and held the mine fields practice.

Dr. Gould was on active service from 1916 until the end of the war and.he continued on the active list, rising to the rank of LieutenantColonel in charge of the Northern Depot N.Z.M.C., which training was of assistance to him in administrative work. Work at Auckland

The work of Dr. Gould at the Auckland Hospital has been stated to have been of the highest standard and his administrative ability, in particular, was excellent. A great deal of his time at the Auckland Hospital lay in the records department, and he stimulated the junior resident staff to undertake adequate record taking. Dr. Gould is held in the highest esteem and regard by his clientele and by his fellow medical men. The nine applications for the position of Superintendent of the Waikato Hospital which the board considered to-day were those of: Dr. J. J. Valentine M. 8., Ch.B., Papatoetoe, formerly of the Waikato Hospital staff; Dr. R. H. O. Donald M.8.Ch.8., Sydney; Dr. L. G. Austin, M.8.Ch.8., Wellington; Dr. W. E. Henley, B.A jVI-8.Ch.8. (Oxon), New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, Takapuna; Dr. W. S. Eudey, M. 8., Ch.B., Fanfurly; Dr. Gould, who was appointed; Dr. J. Garfield Stewart, M.8.Ch.8., Takapuna; Dr. J. B. McMikenr M.8.Ch.8., M.R.A.C.P., formerly of the medical staff of the Waikato Hospital; and Dr E. L. Fitzgerald, M.B.Ch.M., Auckland, Medical Superintendent of the Auckland Infirmary.