Report : 1938 / Middlesex Hospital.

  • Middlesex Hospital.
Date:
1938
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Credit: Report : 1938 / Middlesex Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    courts, the newly-levelled football pitches and hockey ground, as well as important features that could not be seen, like drains and water points. All our visitors agreed that we had a magnificent sports ground. The Opening Day gave the students their first opportunity of showing their gratitude to the man who gave it, Sir Edward Meyerstein. Sir Edward has since presented the Medical School with a further gift of land, consisting of 3 acres which will increase the size of the Athletic Ground. We are full of gratitude to him. Finally, one thought towards next year. I think everyone here knows that the School is in a thriving condition, but it could be likened to an active and vigorous plant outgrowing its long established confines. We have ample room and well-equipped departments for all the clinical subjects, but our lack of space for the earlier studies is serious. Many will learn with relief and optimism for the future that the Builders have started on the first stage of our re-building plans. We have pulled down the old round Lecture-Theatre—not without a pang—but this time next year I hope we shall see raised in its place a four-storied building. This block, architecturally similar to the new Hospital, will give relief to the most urgently pressed departments. In addition there will be a new library of generous dimensions in which there will be comfortable space for reading. So the old library will be available and will be used to increase the Common Room accommodation for students. During rebuilding some inconvenience is inevitable, but no curtailment or serious difficulty will arise with regard to our teaching. In fact, arrangements have been made which will provide slightly better facilities even while the process of building is being carried out. There are many other features that we would like to have included, such as Squash Courts, but these and other ambitions must wait longer for fulfilment. H, E. A. BOLDERO, Bean of the Medical School, Middlesex Hospital5 W.l.