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comprehensive State health service,
were published in 1941. passing of the 1946 N.H.S. Act, Murray continued to campaign with missionary zeal for a fuller State service, and waged many spirited battles with the supporters of private practice, which he strongly believed was inimical to the health interests of the people. These views were updated to current conditions in Blueprint for Health-Medical Care Tomorrow, whichwas published in 1973. David Murray was both a humanist and a humanitarian, and was absolutely dedicated to the cause which he believed right and for which he worked with pen and speech almost to the end. Nevertheless, he still found the time to enjoy his gardening, and identify his bird-visitors, and he loved music. A warm and approachable personality, he was ever ready to volunteer help for patients or friends if the need presented. He lived in a happy family circle, and his many friends both in
After the
this country and abroad will be sad that he has gone, and will greatly miss the lively, provocative, and still youthful person, who, age notwithstanding, managed to transmit a sense of joie de vivre. He is survived by his wife and daughter. V.F
ALBERT ARMITAGE DRIVER M.D. Leeds, D.P.H. Dr A. A. Driver, formerly senior administrative medical officer to Leeds Regional Hospital Board, died on Sept. 11 at the age of 63. He graduated M.B. from Leeds University in 1937 and proceeded M.D. in 1940. He was medical superintendent of the war-time Emergency Hospital at Seacroft, Leeds, before being appointed deputy medical director of St. James’s Hospital, Leeds, in 1947. With the start of the N.H.S. in 1948 he was transferred to the new Leeds Regional Hospital Board as an assistant senior medical officer. In 1954 he was promoted deputy senior administrative medical officer of Liverpool R.H.B., returning to Leeds R.H.B. as senior administrative medical officer in 1959. Joe Driver (as he was known to everyone) was fortunate in taking up this appointment at the time when money was
Mr HAROLD EDWARDS
Mr Edwards, artist to The Lancet from 1921 until his retirement last year, has died at the age of 71. Under the direction of five successive editors, he prepared his diagrams in great abundance and with his own distinctive style and clarity. His illumination of the journal’s pages gave exceptional help to contributors and editors in imparting their messages. For all those years, The Lancet was made to look, at a glance, like The Lancet largely because it had the Edwardian touch upon it. The independence and the ideals of the resolute artist were certainly his: should any hastening editor venture to suggest to him a quick job of touching-up on a less than perfect illustration supplied by an author, back would come the picture from Edwards, impeccably and completely redrawn. He was a charming and generous man, who added in countless quiet ways to the wellbeing of those around him.
Dr G. MALCOLM BROWN, president of the Medical Research Council of Canada, died on May 19. He graduated M.D. from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, in 1939. In 1938-40 he held a Rhodes scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford, where he worked on experimental hypertension and obtained the D.PHIL. degree. He served in the R.C.A.M.C. and was seconded as a physiologist with the Malaria Unit of the R.A.M.C. before returning to the department of medicine of Queen’s University, being appointed full professor there in 1951. Though a general internist, he was particularly interested in gastroenterology and haematology, and was active in the development of these subspecialties at Queen’s. He was appointed president of the Medical Research Council of Canada in 1965, and also served as president (in 1956-58) of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, and as president (in 1962-64) of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada.
Dr WILLIAM MATHIESON
physician
and
physician
to
MACLEOD, formerly consultant the thoracic unit,
Southampton,
died on Sept. 21.
becoming more freely available to the hospital service. He was largely responsible for formulating the Leeds Regional Development Plan, and he made valuable contributions
as a member of the Bonham-Carter Committee which reported in 1969 on the functions of the district general hospital. During his tenure of office much new building was carried out in the Leeds region, notably the completion of hospitals at Huddersfield, Hull, and Airedale, and major extension projects at Pontefract, Bradford, and St. James’s, Leeds. He was associated with the expansion of the consultant grade in the region; he had an easy relationship with the consultants and knew all of them personally. He also had a flair for handling committees-he never said too much and seldom failed to make progress. He was a member of the Standing Medical Advisory Committee of the Central Health Services Council and a member of the Public Health Laboratory Service Board; and he was founder-president of the National Association of Theatre Nurses. In 1971 he was appointed honorary physician to the Queen in recognition of his work for the National Health Service. Illness caused Dr Driver to retire early from whole-time work at the time of N.H.S. reorganisation in 1974, though he continued to do part-time work for the University of Leeds in connection with the inspection and recognition of pre-registration posts. His main leisure interest was golf; he played for Leeds University and maintained a low handicap during his working life which he was striving to reduce in his retirement. He is survived by his wife, Margaret, a son who is a doctor, and two daughters. D.A.L.
Diary
of the Week
OCT. 2 TO8
Monday, 3rd INSTITUTE
OF
OBSTETRICS AND GYNÆCOLOGY, Queen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital, Goldhawk Road, London W6 OXG
4.30 P.M. Mr J. S. Robinson: Growth Retardation in Fetal Limbs.
Tuesday, 4th ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, 35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A3PN 6 P.M. Mr Gerald Westbury: Soft-tissue Tumours. (Stanford Cade memorial
lecture.)
Wednesday,
Sth
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND 5 P.M. Mr J. D. Stamatakis: The Problem of Thromboembolism in Total
lip
Replacement. INSTITUTE OF ORTHOPÆDICS, 234 Great Portland Street, London WIN 6AD 6 P.M. Dr P. A. Dieppe: Crystal Synovitis. 7 P.M. Prof. Verna Wright: Systemic Manifestations of Rheumatoid Arthrius. NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA13UJ 1 P.M. Dr J. S. Garrow, Dr P. M. Jeffreys: Anorexia. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, Pond Street, Hampstead, London
NW32QG 5 P.M. Dr A. M. Adelstein: Measuring Disease in the Community. WHIPPS CROSS HOSPITAL, London Ell 1NR 8.30 P.M. Dr George Misiewicz: The Use of H2 Receptor Antagonists in the Treatment of Peptic Ulceration.
comprehensive State health service,
were published in 1941. passing of the 1946 N.H.S. Act, Murray continued to campaign with missionary zeal for a fuller State service, and waged many spirited battles with the supporters of private practice, which he strongly believed was inimical to the health interests of the people. These views were updated to current conditions in Blueprint for Health-Medical Care Tomorrow, whichwas published in 1973. David Murray was both a humanist and a humanitarian, and was absolutely dedicated to the cause which he believed right and for which he worked with pen and speech almost to the end. Nevertheless, he still found the time to enjoy his gardening, and identify his bird-visitors, and he loved music. A warm and approachable personality, he was ever ready to volunteer help for patients or friends if the need presented. He lived in a happy family circle, and his many friends both in
After the
this country and abroad will be sad that he has gone, and will greatly miss the lively, provocative, and still youthful person, who, age notwithstanding, managed to transmit a sense of joie de vivre. He is survived by his wife and daughter. V.F
ALBERT ARMITAGE DRIVER M.D. Leeds, D.P.H. Dr A. A. Driver, formerly senior administrative medical officer to Leeds Regional Hospital Board, died on Sept. 11 at the age of 63. He graduated M.B. from Leeds University in 1937 and proceeded M.D. in 1940. He was medical superintendent of the war-time Emergency Hospital at Seacroft, Leeds, before being appointed deputy medical director of St. James’s Hospital, Leeds, in 1947. With the start of the N.H.S. in 1948 he was transferred to the new Leeds Regional Hospital Board as an assistant senior medical officer. In 1954 he was promoted deputy senior administrative medical officer of Liverpool R.H.B., returning to Leeds R.H.B. as senior administrative medical officer in 1959. Joe Driver (as he was known to everyone) was fortunate in taking up this appointment at the time when money was
Mr HAROLD EDWARDS
Mr Edwards, artist to The Lancet from 1921 until his retirement last year, has died at the age of 71. Under the direction of five successive editors, he prepared his diagrams in great abundance and with his own distinctive style and clarity. His illumination of the journal’s pages gave exceptional help to contributors and editors in imparting their messages. For all those years, The Lancet was made to look, at a glance, like The Lancet largely because it had the Edwardian touch upon it. The independence and the ideals of the resolute artist were certainly his: should any hastening editor venture to suggest to him a quick job of touching-up on a less than perfect illustration supplied by an author, back would come the picture from Edwards, impeccably and completely redrawn. He was a charming and generous man, who added in countless quiet ways to the wellbeing of those around him.
Dr G. MALCOLM BROWN, president of the Medical Research Council of Canada, died on May 19. He graduated M.D. from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, in 1939. In 1938-40 he held a Rhodes scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford, where he worked on experimental hypertension and obtained the D.PHIL. degree. He served in the R.C.A.M.C. and was seconded as a physiologist with the Malaria Unit of the R.A.M.C. before returning to the department of medicine of Queen’s University, being appointed full professor there in 1951. Though a general internist, he was particularly interested in gastroenterology and haematology, and was active in the development of these subspecialties at Queen’s. He was appointed president of the Medical Research Council of Canada in 1965, and also served as president (in 1956-58) of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, and as president (in 1962-64) of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada.
Dr WILLIAM MATHIESON
physician
and
physician
to
MACLEOD, formerly consultant the thoracic unit,
Southampton,
died on Sept. 21.
becoming more freely available to the hospital service. He was largely responsible for formulating the Leeds Regional Development Plan, and he made valuable contributions
as a member of the Bonham-Carter Committee which reported in 1969 on the functions of the district general hospital. During his tenure of office much new building was carried out in the Leeds region, notably the completion of hospitals at Huddersfield, Hull, and Airedale, and major extension projects at Pontefract, Bradford, and St. James’s, Leeds. He was associated with the expansion of the consultant grade in the region; he had an easy relationship with the consultants and knew all of them personally. He also had a flair for handling committees-he never said too much and seldom failed to make progress. He was a member of the Standing Medical Advisory Committee of the Central Health Services Council and a member of the Public Health Laboratory Service Board; and he was founder-president of the National Association of Theatre Nurses. In 1971 he was appointed honorary physician to the Queen in recognition of his work for the National Health Service. Illness caused Dr Driver to retire early from whole-time work at the time of N.H.S. reorganisation in 1974, though he continued to do part-time work for the University of Leeds in connection with the inspection and recognition of pre-registration posts. His main leisure interest was golf; he played for Leeds University and maintained a low handicap during his working life which he was striving to reduce in his retirement. He is survived by his wife, Margaret, a son who is a doctor, and two daughters. D.A.L.
Diary
of the Week
OCT. 2 TO8
Monday, 3rd INSTITUTE
OF
OBSTETRICS AND GYNÆCOLOGY, Queen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital, Goldhawk Road, London W6 OXG
4.30 P.M. Mr J. S. Robinson: Growth Retardation in Fetal Limbs.
Tuesday, 4th ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, 35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A3PN 6 P.M. Mr Gerald Westbury: Soft-tissue Tumours. (Stanford Cade memorial
lecture.)
Wednesday,
Sth
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND 5 P.M. Mr J. D. Stamatakis: The Problem of Thromboembolism in Total
lip
Replacement. INSTITUTE OF ORTHOPÆDICS, 234 Great Portland Street, London WIN 6AD 6 P.M. Dr P. A. Dieppe: Crystal Synovitis. 7 P.M. Prof. Verna Wright: Systemic Manifestations of Rheumatoid Arthrius. NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA13UJ 1 P.M. Dr J. S. Garrow, Dr P. M. Jeffreys: Anorexia. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, Pond Street, Hampstead, London
NW32QG 5 P.M. Dr A. M. Adelstein: Measuring Disease in the Community. WHIPPS CROSS HOSPITAL, London Ell 1NR 8.30 P.M. Dr George Misiewicz: The Use of H2 Receptor Antagonists in the Treatment of Peptic Ulceration.
