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603 OBITUARY DAVID CONNOR KIRKHOPE, M.D. Glasg., D.P.H. Dr. Kirkhope died on August 25th, three months after his retirement from the post of medical officer of health for Tottenham which he had held for 24 years. He was educated at Queen’s University, Belfast, and went on to Glasgow where he qualified in 1895 and became resident assistant at the Western Infirmary. He then returned for a time to Belfast as honorary assistant pathologist at Queen’s. After being called to the [Photograph by EUiott & Fry DR. KIRKHOPE oar at drays s inu and the Middle Temple he took his M.D. in 1906 and the D.P.H. in the next year, and was appointed assistant M.O.H. to Leyton. In 1913 he fol- lowed J. F. Butler- Hogan as M.O.H. and school medical officer to the Tot- tenham urban dis- trict council, as it then was. His pre- decessor had been deeply interested in the housing of the working classes, and Kirkhope suc- ceeded to this interest. And combining as he did the qualities of professional ability, leadership, and organising genius he became an outstanding health officer in a period which saw the birth of the school medical and child welfare services, and was instrumental in raising his department to a primary place in local government affairs. A cultured and talented man, always ready to give practical assistance and advice, Kirkhope leaves a memory of work worthily and efficiently done. There was abundant testimony to this effect at the time of his retirement under the age limit in May. GEORGE EDWARD LOVEDAY, M.B. Camb. Dr. Loveday, who met his death by drowning on August 25th when on holiday in Norfolk, had been director of the clinical laboratories at Manchester Royal Infirmary for more than 30 years. Educated at Giggleswick School and Caius College, Cambridge, he took the natural sciences tripos in 1898 and stayed a further year to work at pathology. He went on for his clinical work to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, from which he qualified in 1902, and then returned to Cambridge to be house surgeon at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. After another resident appointment at the Salop Infirmary he worked for a year in Sir Almroth Wright’s institute at St. Mary’s Hospital and came under the spell of laboratory methods for detecting disease and assessing its progress. His call to Manchester in 1906 to direct the clinical laboratory of the old infirmary in Market-street was the direct outcome of this interest, and in association with Rams- bottom and others he did a number of investigations on phagocyte-stimulating substances in the blood and later became reader in pathology at the univer- sity. During the war he was attached to the 57th General Hospital, first in Manchester and then in France. Soon after his return he got together a panel of rugby footballers to act as blood donors, thus forming the nucleus of the present voluntary transfusion service used by Manchester and Salford hospitals. Some years ago he drew up plans for the new department of clinical pathology which was opened in 1931 and is one of the best equipped of its kind in the country. His early work in vaccine therapy ultimately resulted in a large inoculation department at the infirmary, and in an extensive consulting practice outside. Loveday himself con- tinually inaugurated and supervised the innumerable new methods of laboratory diagnosis and treatment as they came into use, and retained an expert and up-to-date knowledge of the many divergent fields. The work became a heavy strain, and the loss of his 15-year-old son from meningitis was a blow whose effects on him were apparent to his colleagues. One of them writes : " Loveday’s only ambition was to give to the patient of the moment the best and latest that prac- tical pathology, bacteriology, and chemistry could provide ; it was this narrowness of output that made his reputation essentially local. A real master of technique, he was the originator of applied pathology in Manchester; his colleagues relied implicitly on his opinions and on his reports. He created a great department and then hid himself behind it. The pathological service became so good that the calls on it repeatedly overwhelmed it ; he satisfied the demands and then grumbled-such was his nature. Intensely shy, lacking in self-confidence, a little querulous, always hiding his light, he just missed doing really great things. But he did unknown good for his generation of local people." Dr. Loveday, who was in his 61st year, leaves a widow with a daughter and a second son. HENRY ALLCROFT DUFFETT, F.R.C.S. Eng. Mr. H. A. Duffett died on August 26th at Sidcup where he had spent his whole professional life. Quali- fying from Guy’s in 1894, he held a series of resident appointments there and took his fellowship before settling in Sidcup as surgeon to the cottage hospital. In the meantime he had been a voyage on the steamship Gaspesia. He had opportunities for surgery of which he freely availed himself and contri- buted notes on interesting cases to our own columns. Later on he became medical officer to the Sidcup residential schools. He was also certifying factory surgeon and surgeon to the R division of the Metro- politan Police. SIR GEORGE POLLARD, M.D. Edin. Sir George Herbert Pollard who died at Southport on August 27th, aged nearly 73, was well known in public life. Son of James Pollard of Southport, he was an Edinburgh student of singular brilliance, gaining honours at the College of Surgeons in every subject of the medical curriculum. After taking his medical degree in Edinburgh he stayed on to assist the professor of midwifery there and began to read for the bar. Soon after settling in Southport he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple and became a justice of the peace for the borough and a member of the Lancashire county council. In 1896 he was selected as mayor of Southport for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee, and a few years later contested the
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DAVID CONNOR KIRKHOPE, M.D. Glasg., D.P.H.Dr. Kirkhope died on August 25th, three months
after his retirement from the post of medical officerof health for Tottenham which he had held for 24
years. He was educated at Queen’s University,Belfast, and went on to Glasgow where he qualifiedin 1895 and became resident assistant at the Western
Infirmary. He then returned for a time to Belfastas honorary assistant pathologist at Queen’s. After
being called to the
[Photograph by EUiott & Fry
DR. KIRKHOPE
oar at drays s inuand the Middle
Temple he took hisM.D. in 1906 andthe D.P.H. in thenext year, and wasappointed assistantM.O.H. to Leyton.In 1913 he fol-lowed J. F. Butler-
Hogan as M.O.H.and school medicalofficer to the Tot-tenham urban dis-trict council, as itthen was. His pre-decessor had been
deeply interested inthe housing of theworking classes,and Kirkhope suc-
ceeded to this interest. And combining as he didthe qualities of professional ability, leadership,and organising genius he became an outstandinghealth officer in a period which saw the birth of theschool medical and child welfare services, and wasinstrumental in raising his department to a primaryplace in local government affairs. A cultured andtalented man, always ready to give practical assistanceand advice, Kirkhope leaves a memory of work
worthily and efficiently done. There was abundant
testimony to this effect at the time of his retirementunder the age limit in May.
GEORGE EDWARD LOVEDAY, M.B. Camb.Dr. Loveday, who met his death by drowning on
August 25th when on holiday in Norfolk, had beendirector of the clinical laboratories at Manchester
Royal Infirmary for more than 30 years. Educatedat Giggleswick School and Caius College, Cambridge,he took the natural sciences tripos in 1898 and stayeda further year to work at pathology. He went on forhis clinical work to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, fromwhich he qualified in 1902, and then returned to
Cambridge to be house surgeon at Addenbrooke’sHospital. After another resident appointment atthe Salop Infirmary he worked for a year in SirAlmroth Wright’s institute at St. Mary’s Hospitaland came under the spell of laboratory methods fordetecting disease and assessing its progress. His callto Manchester in 1906 to direct the clinical laboratoryof the old infirmary in Market-street was the directoutcome of this interest, and in association with Rams-bottom and others he did a number of investigationson phagocyte-stimulating substances in the bloodand later became reader in pathology at the univer-sity. During the war he was attached to the 57thGeneral Hospital, first in Manchester and then in
France. Soon after his return he got together apanel of rugby footballers to act as blood donors,thus forming the nucleus of the present voluntarytransfusion service used by Manchester and Salfordhospitals. Some years ago he drew up plans for thenew department of clinical pathology which wasopened in 1931 and is one of the best equipped of itskind in the country. His early work in vaccinetherapy ultimately resulted in a large inoculation
department at the infirmary, and in an extensiveconsulting practice outside. Loveday himself con-tinually inaugurated and supervised the innumerablenew methods of laboratory diagnosis and treatmentas they came into use, and retained an expert andup-to-date knowledge of the many divergent fields.The work became a heavy strain, and the loss of his15-year-old son from meningitis was a blow whoseeffects on him were apparent to his colleagues. Oneof them writes :
" Loveday’s only ambition was to give to thepatient of the moment the best and latest that prac-tical pathology, bacteriology, and chemistry couldprovide ; it was this narrowness of output that madehis reputation essentially local. A real master of
technique, he was the originator of applied pathologyin Manchester; his colleagues relied implicitly onhis opinions and on his reports. He created a greatdepartment and then hid himself behind it. The
pathological service became so good that the callson it repeatedly overwhelmed it ; he satisfied thedemands and then grumbled-such was his nature.Intensely shy, lacking in self-confidence, a little
querulous, always hiding his light, he just misseddoing really great things. But he did unknown goodfor his generation of local people."
Dr. Loveday, who was in his 61st year, leaves awidow with a daughter and a second son.
HENRY ALLCROFT DUFFETT, F.R.C.S. Eng.Mr. H. A. Duffett died on August 26th at Sidcup
where he had spent his whole professional life. Quali-fying from Guy’s in 1894, he held a series of residentappointments there and took his fellowship beforesettling in Sidcup as surgeon to the cottage hospital.In the meantime he had been a voyage on thesteamship Gaspesia. He had opportunities for
surgery of which he freely availed himself and contri-buted notes on interesting cases to our own columns.Later on he became medical officer to the Sidcupresidential schools. He was also certifying factorysurgeon and surgeon to the R division of the Metro-politan Police.
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SIR GEORGE POLLARD, M.D. Edin.Sir George Herbert Pollard who died at Southport
on August 27th, aged nearly 73, was well known inpublic life. Son of James Pollard of Southport, hewas an Edinburgh student of singular brilliance,gaining honours at the College of Surgeons in everysubject of the medical curriculum. After taking hismedical degree in Edinburgh he stayed on to assistthe professor of midwifery there and began to readfor the bar. Soon after settling in Southport he wascalled to the bar at the Inner Temple and became ajustice of the peace for the borough and a memberof the Lancashire county council. In 1896 he wasselected as mayor of Southport for Queen Victoria’sdiamond jubilee, and a few years later contested the
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Southport division unsuccessfully as a Liberal. Afteranother plucky but unsuccessful attempt in theRadcliffe division he won the Eccles division ofLancashire and sat in the House of Commons from1906 to 1918. During the war he was on the medicalboard of the Ministry of Munitions and advised theMinistry on poison gas and chemical warfare. In his
early days in practice he took keen interest in diseasesof the skin and was on the council of the LondonDermatological Society. Later he served as vice-
president of the industrial section of the RoyalInstitute of Public Health. He was knighted in 1909.
PUBLIC HEALTH
Food Poisoning in North LondonAN outbreak of food poisoning in North London
has affected over 100 persons. At the time of goingto press Finsbury reports some 80 cases with 2 deaths ;St. Pancras between 30-35 with 1 death ; Islington,7 ; and Bethnal Green, 1. Some 12-24 hours seemto elapse after infection before symptoms developand then the patient complains of abdominalpains and nausea, and develops pyrexia, diar-rhoea, and vomiting.’ Children and adults have bothbeen affected. The poisoning has been traced to aGaertner bacillus of the salmonella group. This
organism has been isolated from some of the peopleaffected and also in some cooked gammon sold by ashop in Finsbury. Corned beef and breakfast sausagewere also suspected, and the organism has now beenisolated from these articles. We are informed thatno fresh cases have been infected since Wednesday,August 25th. A human carrier is suspect: one
of the persons who handled the food is harbouringthe organism, though he is at present in perfecthealth and cannot recall having had even a triflingindisposition. Two further carriers working in theshop have now been discovered. Their associationwith the sale of foodstuffs has, of course, been stopped.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
IN ENGLAND AND WALES DURING THE WEEK ENDED
AUGUST 21ST, 1937Notifications.-The following cases of infectious
disease were notified during the week : Small-pox, 0 ;scarlet fever, 1187 ; diphtheria, 832 ; enteric fever,52 ; pneumonia (primary or influenzal), 391 ; puer-peral fever, 40 ; puerperal pyrexia, 162 ; cerebro-spinal fever, 19 ; acute poliomyelitis, 23 ; acutepolio-encephalitis, 3 ; encephalitis lethargica, 2 ;dysentery, 20 ; ophthalmia neonatorum, 120. Nocase of cholera, plague, or typhus fever was notifiedduring the week.The number of cases in the Infectious Hospitals of the London
County Council on August 27th was 2635, which included :Scarlet fever, 567 ; diphtheria, 630 (diphtheria carriers, 26) ;measles, 167 ; whooping-cough, 473 ; puerperal fever, 19mothers (plus 7 babies) ; encephalitis lethargica, 284 polio-myelitis, 9. At St. Margaret’s Hospital there were 26 babies(plus 11 mothers) with ophthalmia neonatorum.
Deaths.-In 124 great towns, including London,there was no death from small-pox, 1 (0) from entericfever, 5 (0) from measles, 3 (0) from scarlet fever,16 (8) from whooping-cough, 23 (5) from diphtheria,53 (14) from diarrhoea and enteritis under two years,and 9 (2) from influenza. The figures in parenthesesare those for London itself.Manchester reported the only death from enteric fever.
Manchester and Newport each had two deaths from whooping-cough. Diphtheria was fatal in 11 great towns ; in 3 caseseach at Burnley, Liverpool, and Newcastle-under-Lyme. Man-chester had 4 deaths from diphtheria, no other great town morethan 2.
The number of stillbirths notified during the weekwas 257 (corresponding to a rate of 35 per 1000 totalbirths), including 31 in London.
MEDICAL NEWSSociety of Apothecaries of LondonAt recent examinations the following candidates were
successful :-Surgery.-J. B. Alexander, Westminster Hosp. ; F. Bastawros,
Royal Colleges, Edin. ; J. D. Buckner, Guy’s Hosp. ; I. W.Claiman, Univ. of Manch. ; T. Gadian, Univs. of Oxf.andManch.;J. B. Good and W. A. Groom, Guy’s Hosp. ; E. de C. Kite,Univ. of Glasg. ; B. W. S. Spurgin, Univ. of Manch. ; A. T.Rogers, St. Mary’s Hosp. ; and W. E. Young, Guy’s Hosp.
Medicine.-A. A. Beazeley, Guy’s Hosp. ; T. Gadian, Univs.of Oxf. and Manch. ; 0. D. Gilmore, Univ. of Camb. and West-minster Hosp. ; H. W. John, St. Mary’s and West LondonHosps. ; K. G. Pascall, Guy’s Hosp. ; and T. van der Walt,London Hosp.
Forensic Medicine.-A. A. Beazeley, Guy’s Hosp. ; T. Gadian,Univs. of Oxf. and Manch. ; 0. D. Gilmore, Univ. of Camb. andWestminster Hosp. ; B. T. Jones, St. Mary’s and West LondonHosps. ; K. G. Pascall, Guy’s Hosp. ; and T. van der Walt,London Hosp.
1IIidwifery.-H. P. Anderson, Charing Cross Hosp. ; A. ]3ack.man, Guy’s Hosp. ; J. A. W. Berryman, Charing Cross Hosp. ;H. B. 0. Cardew, Guy’s Hosp. ; D. H. Fowler, Middlesex Hosp. ;M. W. Hemans, Univ. of Oxf. and St. George’s Hosp. ; D. C.Light, Guy’s Hosp. ; G. MacBain, Univ. of Sheff. ; and T. vander Walt, London Hosp.The following candidates, having completed the fiual
examination, are granted the diploma of the societyentitling them to practise medicine, surgery, and mid.wifery : A. A. Beazeley, I. W. Claiman, 0. D. Gilmore,H. W. John, E. de C. Kite, K. G. Pascall, and T. van derWalt.
Sanitary Inspectors’ AssociationThe jubilee conference of this association is being held
in Brighton this week. The presidential address wasgiven by Sir Leonard Hill, F.R.S., on Tuesday, and MajorH. Stuart Blackmore, M.R.C.S., is speaking to-day (Friday)on air-raid precautions and the public health services.Westminster Hospital
Applications are invited for the Wander scholarshipin diseases of children. The scholar, who receives a salaryof ;E250 per annum, acts as clinical pathologist and regis-trar to the children’s department of the hospital. Furtherinformation will be found in our advertisement columns.
Colonel DONALD CLEWER, L.D.S. R.C.S., inspectorof Army Dental Services in India, has been selected forappointment as director of Army Dental Services at theWar Office, in succession to the late Colonel J. V. M. Byrne.
HOLIDAYS FOR WORKING WOMEN
THE following letter reaches us from the FactoryGirls’ Country Holiday Fund : " Will you allow usto make to your readers an urgent appeal for thisfund ? It has helped hundreds of the poorest ofLondon’s girls and women to go away for the AugustBank Holiday week, the only clear week they couldget in the whole year. Many more are hoping to getaway during the next weeks ; but at present ourfunds are exhausted. A large number of the girlssent away are hardly more than big, growing children,having recently left school for work in factories andwarehouses. This summer holiday means even morethan a health-giving change of air and surroundings.Boarded with kindly cottagers living in their ownwell-ordered little houses, the girls and womenexchange with country folk experiences which makelife fuller and more complete. Those from Londongain, too, a new interest in nature-in the cultivationof flowers, and fruit, and vegetables, and in the careof animals. Think what this means to people wholive for the rest of the year in crowded dwellings andstuffy streets, often far away from parks and largeopen spaces ! A summer holiday means much tomost of us. To them it means a benefit which isalmost indescribable. Will your readers help us tosave these girls from bitter disappointment. Giftswill be thankfully received and acknowledged by thehon. treasurer, Mrs. Slater, Lowood, Hindhead,Surrey, or by Miss Canney, 75, Lamb’s Conduit-street, London, W.C.I."The appeal is signed by the Countess of Sandwich,
Miss Lilian Braithwaite, Miss May Wynne, Miss MaryPaget, the Bishop of London, the Chief Rabbi, andLady Loch (chairman).
