Body Remodelers

New York City last week opened six free clinics for plastic surgery. No other U. S. community has so many such institutions for remodeling marred and malformed humans. Like all free clinics these have a double purpose: to give the supervision of experts to those too poor to pay for private surgery; to provide practice material for students of a specialty. Mere beauty seekers were being rejected from the New York clinics last week. The first cases accepted were disfigurements and distortions caused by injuries demanding previous urgent operations where there had not been time for cosmetic repairs. Also accepted were persons ravaged by cancer and tuberculosis.

The world's most famed plastic surgery hospital, Queens Hospital for Facial Injuries at Sidcup, Kent, England, ceased functioning last autumn. From its open-ing in 1917 it handled 19,000 cases. Its most skilled staff member, Dr. Harold Delf Gillies, sometimes performed 30 separate operations on a single case. He, 48 last week, born at Dunedin, N. Z., is now plastic surgeon to three London hospitals and to the Royal Air Force. U. S. dentists know him as an honorary member of their national association. Sportsmen recall him. as playing golf for England against Scotland in 1908, 1925, 1926, as winning St. George's Grand Challenge Cup in 1913.

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