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First Title value, for Searching Robertson, Maurice Alexander (1906 - 1970)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-06
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Occupation Epidemiologist General surgeon
Details Maurice Alexander Robertson was born in Aberdeen in 1906, and was educated at Sedburgh School and St John's College, Cambridge. He came to the London Hospital for the clinical course and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1930, and also graduated MB BCh. After holding the usual junior hospital posts he obtained the FRCS in 1935, and went to South Africa in 1939 as surgeon to the Admiralty in Port Elizabeth. He established himself there in private practice and was appointed honorary surgeon to the Provincial Hospital, Port Elizabeth where he served with distinction for many years. Robertson impressed his colleagues, and especially his trainees with his kindness to and interest in his patients, and his conscientious attention to his periods of duty. He was a member of the Hospital Board, President of the Cape Midland Branch, and a Federal Councillor. Unfortunately ill-health forced him to abandon clinical work in 1964, and he spent the last 6 years of his life at the Cancer Research Unit of the National Cancer Association in Johannesburg. Robertson's chief interest was in cancer epidemiology, and he completed three major surveys of the patterns of cancer in Southern Africa. He died in Rhodesia in December 1970, and was survived by his wife and his daughter, Dr Bartlett, who was a paediatrician in Salisbury.
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First Title value, for Searching Wilkinson, Edmund (1867 - 1938)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-11
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Occupation Epidemiologist Medical Officer Military surgeon
Details Born 9 January 1867 at the East Cornwall Bank, Launceston, Cornwall, the first child of John Wimble Wilkinson, the bank accountant, and Emma Sophia Shilson his wife. He was educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton, Devon, and at University College, London. At University College Hospital he held resident posts, and entering the Indian Medical Service was gazetted surgeon on 28 July 1891, went to Bengal, was promoted major on 21 July 1903, lieutenant-colonel on 28 July 1913, and retired on 13 November 1914. He served on the NW Frontier, Waziristan 1894-95 (medal and clasp), at Mohmand 1897-98, and was in the Buner action of Tanga pass (medal and clasp). In the Punjab he was chief plague medical officer, and was acting sanitary commissioner for East Bengal and Assam. During the war he was liaison officer in England between the civil and military authorities to establish the sanitary arrangements for military camps and hospitals. On 1 April 1914 he was appointed a medical inspector under the Local Government Board, which became the Ministry of Health after 1919, and served until 1932, when he retired to live the life of a country gentleman in Cornwall. He married twice: (1) Eva Marion Haig on 2 February 1899; and (2) Gertrude Mary, widow of Prebendary Daugar of Exeter, on 15 April 1925; she survived him, with four daughters of his first marriage. He died at Hornacott Manor, near Launceston, on 1 May 1938. Mrs Wilkinson died on 12 August 1947 at the same place. Wilkinson had a distinguished career as an epidemiologist both in India and in England. His plague experience in India enabled him to render invaluable aid to the Port sanitary authority in London and in preventing the spread of the disease in East Anglia. Publication: *Tropical medicine and hygiene*, with C W Daniels: Part 1, *Disease due to protozoa*, London, 1909; parts 2-3 and 2nd edition by Daniels alone.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004778
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First Title value, for Searching Doll, Sir William Richard Shaboe (1912 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-11-15
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Occupation Epidemiologist
Details Sir Richard Doll, the most distinguished epidemiologist of his generation, established that smoking causes cancer and heart disease. Born in Hampton, Middlesex, on 28 October 1912, he was the son of Henry William Doll, a general practitioner, and Amy Kathleen Shaboe. He was educated at Westminster and St Thomas’ Hospital, doing junior jobs as casualty officer, anaesthetist and house physician. He began his research career under Paul Wood at Hammersmith, while working as a resident medical officer at the London Clinic. When war broke out he was called up into the RAMC, where he served as a battalion medical officer at Dunkirk, was posted to a hospital ship, and served in the invasion of Sicily. He contracted tuberculosis of the kidney in 1944, underwent a nephrectomy, and was discharged in early 1945. He took a course on statistics under Sir Austin Bradford Hill, who was impressed by him, and in 1948 that he went to work with Bradford Hill at the Medical Research Council. They began to study the causes of the huge increase in deaths from cancer of the lung. It was a time when smoking was regarded as normal and harmless. Their preliminary study of hospital patients with cancer of the lung and other diseases showed, to their surprise, that those with lung cancer were smokers, those with other diseases were not. This was confirmed by a prospective study on doctors’ smoking habits. At this stage Doll himself gave up smoking. Immensely distinguished, honoured by innumerable institutions, Doll was a genial and likeable man whose juniors adored him. One of his last public speeches was to a meeting of the Oxford Medical Graduates Club, where to the relief of his audience he showed that there was no statistical harm done by wine. When asked how much, he replied: “enough”. Doll married Joan Mary Faulkner in 1949. They had a son and daughter. He died on 24 July 2005.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000163
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