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Show PREFERS MALE DOCTOR TO PERFORM LEG AMPUTATION T ADY FRANCES BALFOUR, who makes humorous address at opening of South London hospital for women. 1 lt A 'Mo 1 ICS J I Queen Mary Graces Exercises Exer-cises fqr New Institution With Her Presence. Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON. July 8. Queen Mary has just opened a new wing of the South London Hospital for Women at Southslde, Clapham Common, a well-known and populous distriot of South London. . The Marchioness of Londonderry and Lady Cowdray have taken a prominent part In the new building', which Is designed de-signed to form the nucleus of the future work of the woman doctor. AU that now remains to secure this undertaking Is the furnishing, equipment and upkeep of the new institution. At a preliminary meeting held at Lady Cow-dray's Cow-dray's town house, Sir Frederick Treves, the great London specialist, gave the undertaking his blessing. He laid particular par-ticular stress on the point that eugenlsts would hail the new Institution with delight, de-light, for, as a special hospital for women, it would have its beneliclal effect upon cne two evils today most deplored the falling birth rate and the mortality among children. Since the women of tne medical profession profes-sion had won their fight for recognition, they only lacked full opportunity, he said. The war had provided that opportunity and It had been met in a groat and noble spirit. He ventured to predict that the provision of that hospital for women and children, run by women and with Us patients pa-tients administered to by women, would prove a lucrative return for any money expended on it In support of the "hospital. Lady Frances Balfour, the prominent suffragette, made a humorous speech in supporting the 'hospital. Nevertheless, she declared that she would rather have her leg amputated by a ma doctor than have it saved by a female practitioner: but the woman doctor was more than a medical attendant to her patients, she was their mother. |