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First Title value, for Searching Wright, Henry Beric (1918 - 2008)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-24 2015-08-14
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Occupation General surgeon Occupational physician
Details Henry Beric Wright was director of medical services at BUPA. He studied medicine at University College Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1942. Prior to his appointment at BUPA, he was a surgical officer at Shell, an assistant surgical registrar at University College Hospital and a major in the RAMC.
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First Title value, for Searching Ensell, Francis John (1926 - 1975)

2024-05-04T16:36:17Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-01 2016-02-02
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Occupation Occupational physician
Details Francis John Ensell was born on 27 May 1926 and graduated in medicine at Birmingham in 1949. He held house appointments at Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the General Hospital, Birmingham, and took the FRCS in 1960. He had served in the Royal Air Force and was awarded the George Medal for bravery while station medical officer at Biggin Hill, when he saved the life of a semi-conscious pilot whom he dragged from a blazing aircraft. He was chief medical officer to the British Aircraft Corporation, Filton, Bristol, and consultant occupational health physician to Bristol University and to the West of England Engineering Employers' Association. He was remembered by his colleagues in occupational health and general practice as an enthusiast in his field and as a staunch friend. He died in July 1975 aged 49, survived by his wife and daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Walder, Dennis Neville (1916 - 2008)

2024-05-04T16:36:17Z

by Sir Miles Irving
Publication Date 2011-11-28 2013-06-12
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Occupation Occupational physician
Details Dennis Walder, professor of surgical science at the University of Newcastle, was a leading researcher in the field of decompression sickness ('the bends') and hyperbaric medicine. Surgery as a specialty has always been encompassed by wide boundaries, but Dennis' research must surely rank as a topic that stretched those boundaries to new limits. Dennis was born in Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, the son of Horace Hampton James Walder, an architect, and Alice Wilhelmina Walder née Heide. He qualified from Bristol University in 1940. After military service, which ended in 1946, he secured surgical training posts in the North East of England, where he spent the remainder of his professional career until retirement. His interest in decompression sickness stemmed from his time as a medical officer in the wartime RAF, when he saw the problems faced by bomber pilots flying at great height without the benefits of pressurised cabins. He began studying why some pilots were more susceptible to sub-atmospheric compression sickness, and designed an apparatus to measure the surface tension of blood serum to help in these studies. In 1948 the Medical Research Council (MRC), faced with a high incidence of the bends in miners, divers and tunnel builders, invited Dennis and William Paton (later Sir William Paton, professor of pharmacology at the University of Oxford and professor of pharmacology at the Royal College of Surgeons) to monitor the health of workers working in compressed air as they constructed the pedestrian tunnel under the river Tyne. The results of their research set the standard for understanding and dealing with these workers' problems. In the sixties Dennis Walder masterminded the first code of practice for work in compressed air, which led, in 1996, to regulations for governing work in such conditions. Paton and Walder founded the Decompression Sickness Panel, of which Dennis was chairman for many years. From this grew the Decompression Sickness Registry, which kept copies of all the X-ray examinations of the major joints of compressed air workers. In the seventies Dennis won two major MRC grants to further the work of the registry, and led the transfer and computerisation of half a million records for over 4,000 workers. His studies demonstrated that the incidence of aseptic bone necrosis was directly related to the number of hours worked in compressed air. He set out to find why only some of the tunnel workers experienced health problems. In 1965 Dennis was awarded a Hunterian professorship for his research on problems relating to working in a hyperbaric atmosphere. He was awarded a MD and ChM, and became a member of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine. In 1966 he was promoted to professor of surgical science at Newcastle University. With the growth of diving activity in the North Sea in the search for oil, the clinical need for his expertise rose to high levels in the sixties. He would often be called out to oil rigs, sometimes in the night, to treat divers with the bends, and would transport the diver by boat or by helicopter back to the decompression chamber at Newcastle University, sometimes getting into the chamber himself to attend to the patient. He experimented on animals, mainly pot-bellied pigs, which have a similar physiology to humans, but did not exclude himself from such experiments. (He sometimes had to be admitted to the intensive care unit at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, when his experiments brought him close to death.) Even though he retired in the eighties, he continued to contribute through the Compressed Air Working Group. In 2002 he was the first medical practitioner to be awarded the James Clark memorial medal of the British Tunnelling Society for services to the tunnelling industry. Part of his citation read: 'The younger members of the Society will not appreciate how such a man could possibly contribute to our industry to the level that he is honored, but it is not for his skills as a surgeon that we owe him so much but for his continued quest to improve the lot of the compressed air worker.' Dennis married Winifred Osman Jones, a fellow graduate of Bristol University, in 1940. She died in 2005. They had two sons and a daughter. Dennis died on 4 September 2008, aged 91.
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First Title value, for Searching Reid, James George (1906 - 1994)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Occupational physician
Details James Reid was born in Bournemouth on 24 October 1906, the son of George Alexander Reid, a general practitioner, and his wife Muriel, née Hopwood. He was educated at Hailey Preparatory School in Bournemouth, and Marlborough College, Wiltshire. He then went to Oxford University and on to St George's Hospital Medical School, graduating in 1930. Initially he followed his father into general practice in Bournemouth, but soon became a surgeon at Boscombe Hospital. On 8 December 1941 he married Hilda Murray Searle. During the war he served in the RAMC from 1939 to 1945 in France, North Africa and Italy with the 11th Field Hospital and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel. While serving in Italy he attended King George VI, having been invited to do so because of his candour and manner. He was subsequently made a Member (later translated to Lieutenant) of the Royal Victorian Order. After the war he had a spell of farming beside Poole harbour, where he enjoyed boating. In 1955 he was appointed civilian specialist surgeon at Tidworth Military Hospital. His manner and bearing were those of an Edwardian country gentleman, and he entertained people with many anecdotes. He nearly lost his job because of his contempt for bureaucratic 'fiddle faddle'. In 1962 he joined British Rail as an occupational physician and became intensely interested in the working conditions of railwaymen, the crews of Sealink ferries and the staff at Eastleigh Railway Works of the Southampton Docks Board. He was a champion of the underdog, appreciating every person's value, maintaining confidences, and often reminding management of its correct role. He lectured and examined in first aid and was made an Officer Brother of the Order of St John. His library and his culinary skills were among his hobbies, which also included sailing, snooker and gardening. He died on 29 August 1994, survived by his daughter Sally Long and three step-children from the first marriage of his wife Hilda, who died before him.
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First Title value, for Searching Henry, Sydney Alexander (1880 - 1960)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-26 2014-04-03
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Occupational physician
Details Born on 15 August 1880 he was the son of Joseph Henry MD, LRCSI a general practitioner and part-time Medical Officer of Health for Rochdale 1879-1908; from his father he inherited a keen interest in industrial medicine. He was educated at Rossall School, Trinity College, Cambridge and St Thomas's Hospital where he qualified in 1905. After qualifying Henry spent a few years as an assistant school medical officer under Dr J C Bridge in Breconshire. He then went into general practice in Rochdale, where he also held the post of certifying factory surgeon. From this early experience Henry developed an interest in occupational disease, and he became an authority on the subject from the employers' and employees' point of view. He saw active service in the RAMC in the first world war, was wounded and was made a Chevalier of the Belgian Ordre de la Couronne in 1916. In 1920 he was appointed one of HM Inspectors of Factories at the Home Office; the fourth to be appointed. He was responsible under Sir Thomas Legge for a wide district in the north of England, and with characteristic verve accepted this challenge. He had a profound knowledge of the conditions in the textile trade, and became secretary to the Departmental Committees on epitheliomatous ulceration among mule-spinners and on dust in cotton cardrooms. He had a great admiration for Sir Thomas Legge and they became close friends. Henry worked in Manchester from 1920 to 1930; in 1929 he was vice-president of the Section of Occupational Health at the Annual Meeting of the BMA. He was a Hunterian Professor in 1940 and 1950; he and his sister endowed the Joseph Henry lectureship here in 1949 in memory of their father, and in 1952 he was elected FRCS. He delivered the Milroy lecture at the Royal College of Physicians in 1943, and the Chadwick lecture on "Medical supervision in industry in peace and war" at the Royal Society of Health in 1944. He endowed the Ernestine Henry lectureship at the College of Physicians in 1945 in memory of his mother, and the same year he was elected FRCP. Henry was a medical inspector of factories for twenty-four years, and became an international authority on industrial health. His special interest was occupational cancer and much of his writing is on this subject. He was a charming, kindly man and a voluble conversationalist. He was a great collector: books, china, paintings, engravings, and anything which threw light on occupational cancer were his special delight. He gave part of his collection to Leeds City Museum, and presented the pathological specimens, which his chief Sir Thomas Legge had given him, to Manchester University. Henry died at his home, 61 Overstrand Mansions, Battersea Park on 12 February 1960, aged 79. Select Publications: *Cancer of the scrotum in relation to occupation*. 1946. Occupational cutaneous cancer attributed to certain chemicals in industry. *Brit med Bull* 1947. Control and prevention of occupational cancer in Great Britain. *Irish J med Sci* 1955.
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First Title value, for Searching Raffle, Philip Andrew Banks (1918 - 2004)

2024-05-04T16:36:17Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-19 2012-03-09
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Occupation Occupational physician
Details Andrew Raffle, former chief medical officer of London Transport Executive, was an expert on medical standards for driving. He was born on 3 September 1918 in Newcastle upon Tyne, where his father, Andrew Banks Raffle, a barrister and a doctor, was medical officer for health for South Shields (he was later divisional medical officer to the London County Council). His mother was Daisy née Jarvis, the daughter of a farmer. His two uncles were both doctors. He studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital, qualifying in 1941, and was subsequently a house surgeon at Cheltenham. He then spent five years with the RAMC, becoming a specialist in venereology in Egypt during the North African campaign with the rank of Major. After demobilisation, he was a medical registrar in Bristol and then took the diploma in public health at the London School of Hygiene. In 1948 he joined London Transport under the aegis of Leslie Norman, whom he succeeded in 1969 as chief medical officer. There he carried out research to find evidence of the relationship between exercise and heart disease, by comparing the health of drivers and conductors. He also worked on the medical aspects of fitness to drive, becoming an acknowledged expert in this field. He advised the Department of Transport and other organisations on safe levels of alcohol in the blood, and the effects of diabetes and various medications on the ability to drive. He edited *Medical aspects of fitness to drive: a guide for medical practitioners* (London, Medical Commission on Accident Prevention, 1976), which became a key text for doctors to use when assessing patients. He was a member of the Blennerhasset committee on drinking and driving legislation. He continued to write papers on health standards for drivers up to 1992. He gave the BMA McKenzie industrial health lecture in 1974 and the Joseph Henry lecture at the College in 1988. He wrote many chapters in textbooks and was co-editor of *Hunter's diseases of occupations* (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1987). He taught occupational medicine to postgraduates and was an examiner, and later convenor, for the diploma in industrial health at the Society of Apothecaries. He became chief medical officer of the St John Association and masterminded the Save-a-Life campaign, to teach resuscitation to a wider public. He was a fellow of the BMA and deputy Chairman of the occupational health committee. He was President of the Society of Occupational Medicine in 1967, and treasurer and subsequently vice-president of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was a member of the standing committee which led to the establishment of the new Faculty of Occupational Medicine in 1978. He was a founder fellow and served on the first board of the new faculty. He married Jill, the daughter of Major V H Sharp of the Royal Horse Artillery, in 1941. They had no children. In 1982 they retired to an isolated Oxfordshire village, where he took up gardening. He died of heart failure on 23 January 2004 and is survived by his widow.
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