First Title value, for Searching Channing, Geoffrey Howard Dale (1916 - 1993)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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Occupation General surgeon Occupational health specialist
Details Geoffrey Channing was born on 22 March 1916 at Bushey in London, the son of William Channing, an antiques valuer, and his wife Alice, née Stevens. He was educated at Latymer Upper School, West London, and Guy's Hospital Medical School, where he was awarded the Golding Bird Prize in obstetrics and gynaecology. After qualifying in 1940, he became house surgeon to Sir Russell Brock, and during the war he served in the RAF Medical Service. After demobilisation he held surgical posts at Rochford Hospital in Essex, Mount Vernon Hospital, the Metropolitan Hospital and the Royal Marsden, where he was a senior surgical registrar. In 1956 he joined the Ford Motor Company, subsequently becoming chief medical officer of Ford Great Britain. He was a member of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine and had a special interest in industrial deafness. He was also chairman of various DHSS medical boards. His interests included gardening and music. He was married twice, firstly to Kathleen Marjorie Hill, a staff nurse at Guy's Hospital, who died in 1967, and secondly to Mavis Bartram in 1968. By his first marriage he had a son, Alastair, a company director, and another, Simon, by his second marriage, an orchestral musician. He died on 23 May 1993, aged 77.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007857
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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First Title value, for Searching Birks, Melville (1876 - 1924)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-03-04 2015-06-12
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Occupation General surgeon Occupational health specialist
Details The following was published in volume one of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows. Was a student of Adelaide University and Hospital, and at the London Hospital, acting at the former as House Physician and House Surgeon. He practised for many years at Petersburg, South Australia, and later became Surgeon Superintendent of the Broken Hill and District Hospital, New South Wales. He died in or before the year 1925. Publications: "Mine Accidents at Broken Hill and District Hospital." - *Med. Jour. Australia*, 1918, i, 507. "Health Conditions at Broken Hill Mines." - *Jour. State Med.*, 1921, xxxix, 121. See below for an amended version of the published obituary: Melville Birks was surgeon superintendent of Broken Hill Hospital from 1913 to 1923 and an authority on industrial diseases. He was born on 30 January 1876, the son of Walter Richard Birks and Jemima Scott Birks. He was educated at state schools and at Way College, and then attended Roseworthy Agricultural College in South Australia. He was awarded a silver medal and his diploma of agriculture in 1896. He went on to study medicine at the University of Adelaide, gaining his medical degree in 1902. He served for a year at Adelaide Hospital as a house surgeon and then went to England, where he spent three years. He gained his FRCS in 1907. While in London he met Miss MacIntyre, daughter of P B MacIntyre of Ross-shire, Scotland, a crofters commissioner, and they married shortly afterwards, on 5 March 1909. He returned to South Australia, where he practised at Peterborough until 1913. While he was in the town he was also involved in civic affairs and served for a time as mayor. He was then appointed surgeon superintendent at Broken Hill. Here he made a study of miners' diseases. He was also a referee under the Workers' Compensation Act; he had a reputation for fairness and was respected by both miners and employers. He worked for long hours in the operating theatre, supported only by nursing staff. After some time at Broken Hill he began to suffer from ill health. In 1918 he was granted leave for a year. He went to Europe and America with his wife and family, and made a study of occupational diseases, visiting factories and hospitals. He attended a Medical Congress in Brussels, where he read a paper on lead poisoning. He returned to Broken Hill in 1920, but in August 1922 his health broke down once again and he was advised to go to the eastern states of Australia. He was in a private Melbourne hospital for 11 months and then in Melbourne General Hospital for a further three months. He returned to his mother's home in Adelaide in December 1923 and died there on 24 April 1924 at the age of 48. He was buried in Payneham Cemetery, Payneham South, South Australia. He was survived by his wife and their children - two sons and a daughter. Sarah Gillam
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