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Asset Name:
E005878 - Landau, Muriel Elsie (1895 - 1972)
Title:
Landau, Muriel Elsie (1895 - 1972)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E005878
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-08-26
Description:
Obituary for Landau, Muriel Elsie (1895 - 1972), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Landau, Muriel Elsie
Date of Birth:
21 January 1895
Date of Death:
13 November 1972
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 1918

FRCS 1920

MB BS London 1918

MD London 1921

LRCP 1918
Details:
Muriel Landau was born on 21 January 1895 and educated at Dame Alice Owens School, Islington where she gained an entrance scholarship to the London School of Medicine for Women. She qualified in 1918 and after house appointments at the Royal Free and at Queen Charlotte's Hospitals was appointed registrar to the Hospital for Women, Soho Square. In 1921 she took her MD in obstetrics and gynaecology and at the early age of 26 was appointed to the staff of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital. Her interests were mainly obstetrics and gynaecology, but she also practised general surgery and eventually she became the senior consulting surgeon, giving her services to the hospital from 1921-61, the year of her retirement. She was also on the staff of the London Jewish Hospital and the Marie Curie Hospital for Women. Miss Landau was an outstanding personality and over a period of some 45 years acquired a large private practice. During the second world war when the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital was evacuated to the country she continued her work there, travelling from London often in the black-out. For the years 1965-66 she was elected President of the Medical Womens Federation of Great Britain and she found time to help Zionist aspirations and for over 15 years she was chairman of the Doctors and Dentists Group for the Joint Palestine Appeal. In 1922 she married Dr Samuel Sacks who was in general practice in East London; she had four sons, three of whom became doctors. Miss Landau died suddenly on 13 November 1972 while on a visit to Israel; she was survived by her husband and her sons.
Sources:
*Brit med J* 1972, 4, 555

*Lancet* 1972, 2, 1208
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E005000-E005999/E005800-E005899
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