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OBITUARY NOTICES NORMAN CAPENER C.B.E., FR.C.S.
t orthoMr. Normn Capener, n paedic surgeon emeritus to the Southwestern Regional Hospital Board, died on 30 March. He was 76. Norman Leslie Capener was born on 4 May 1898 and educated at tihe City of London School and the Temple Choir, London. After a period as a surgeon sublieutenant, R.N.V.R., during the first wold war he qualified from St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 1922. He held house appointments at St. Bar tholomew's and ' for awhile was chief assistant in the surgical professorial unit. In 1924 he took the F.R.C.S. F-rom 1926 to 1931 he was an instructor in anatomy and assistant professor of sugery at Miohigan University. In 1931 he returned to Engand, settled at Exeter, and became senior orthopaedik surgeon to Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hosptal. He was also consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and to other hospitals at Plymouth and in Devon. In 1941 he was Hunterian professor to the Royal College of Surgeons and Arris and Gale lecturer in 1947. Later he gave the Robert Jones and the Thomas Vicary lectures. A menber of council of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1961 to 1973, he was a vice-president from 1971 to 1973. In 1966 he was appointed C.B.E. Mr. Capener also served as president of the Britidh Orthopaedic Association and from 1964 to 1971 was consultant adviser in orthopaedics to t-he Ministry of Healh. A prominent authority on -the ,ratment of inj,uries resulting from accidents, he became in 1964 scientific director of the Medica Commission on Accident Prevention and from 1967 was its ch n. He was also obairman of the Institute of Sports Medicine; of the British Standards Institution CAmmission on Surgicl Implants; and of the Committee for Rewardh into Appiances for the Disabled. He wrote many artices on othopaedics, biomechanics, and historical medical subjects. His recreations were art and music and as a sultor he had great talent, exhibiting regularly for many years. In 1969 the RoWal AXeit Memoril Museum and Art Galery at Exeter presented a show of his sculpture. Mr. Gapener's first wife died in 1970. He is survived by his scond wife and by his son and
daughter.
TX.S. writes: Norman Capener was a highly cultured man with many interests outside medicine and there were few aspects of literae and -he arts in wbich he was not knowledgeable. His ability to literature and hiswry was wel shown in the Vicary lecture that he recently delivered at he Royal College of Surgeons and his early experwne in the choir of -the Temple Church was a backgrund for his continued intest in early English music. Sculpture was, bowever, the exercise towards which his special energies were devoted. His sense of form and material developed under the influence of his friend Barba Hepworth, and led to the creation of some excellent works. It was Barbra Hepworth who paid hin the compliment of indi him as the central figure in one of her more important paintings. Capener's love and appreciation of the Devon countryside, and Exeter in partcular, was obvious to everyone who knew hii, and there were few societies in that a-rea to which he did not con,tribute. It was characterisdc that with his wife, Elsa, he acted as guide to visitors to the cahdral and alRowed tiem to share his enusiasmn and expertise. His enthusiasm was contagious, and this, coupled with his genle and constant courtesy, brought him friends everywhere. The tragedy of illness over his last months was lightened by the devoion of al those who cared for him, and his loss will be mourned by everyone who knew and admired him. H.O.C. writes: Norman Chpener was a very old and cherished friend. Influenced by Ehmslie and Higgs at Barnts, by Sir Robert Jones at Liverpool, by Girdlestone at Oxford, and by a great Am an ortho paedist, Dr. Carl Badgeley, of Ann Arbor, he founded from scratdh an orthopaedic service for Devon and a good deal more of she West Country. This produced first-class orthopaedic facilities for that lrge rural area centred on tthe Princess Elizabeth Hopital at Exeter, with outpatient clinics in strategic areas which were regularly visited by ortbopaedically trained aftercare nursing sistes and by bimself and colleagues whom he trained. Gradually Devonian orthopaedic services, as he liked to cal his organization, adhieved a national and internonal reputation for quality of work and teaching and training facilities. He was a man with many interts, not just find to di ine i all its aspects but in many other subjectshistory, ar, esecally sculpture and painting, and music. At one time he was a keen and very fast motoist with a love for vintge Bentleys, and a keen and knowledgeable famer. He wrote much and uidly and spoke with an almost pedianic care for peonunci n and the correct choice of words and phrase. He was so helpful to so many people and organizations righ up to
the time of his final illness sme six months ago that he wil be greatly missed and widely mourned.
C. L. OAKLEY C.B.E., D.SC., M.D., F.R.C.PATH., F.R.S.
Professor Cyril Oakley, profeor emeriau of bacteriology at Leeds Univesity, died on 27 March. He was 67. Cyril Leslie Oakley was bor at Portsmouth on 20 June 1907. In 1924 he entered University College, London, with a scholarship won at Westminster City School. He enjoyed his studies in zoology, anatomy, and physiology so much tlut by atending evening classes at Chelsea Polytechnic he was in 1930 able to graduame not only in medicine but also with first-clss honours in zoology. Ths capacity for scholaship, dided by a quite remarkable memory, distinguishedall that he did in his academic career, university work, and hobbies. After four years' postgaduate experience be joined the staff of the Welkome Research Laboratories and for 19 years took a major part in developing safe and effective immunological tedhniques for -the therapy and prophylaxis of diphtheria, tetanus, and gas gangrene. His work on the clostridial toxins was of great value in red,ucing wound infections in the second world war, and this interest in- the field of i logy d ted his research throughout his academic career, resulting in his election to the Felloship of the Royal Society in 1957. From 1950 he took an increasing part in the editorship of the 7oual of Pathology and Bacteriology., becoming chief editor in 1956, and characteristically, when that already arduous task was divided, continued to edit both the Youral of Pathology and the 7ounau of Medical Microbiology. He was a founder Fellow and menter of council of the Royal College of Pahologists, and in 1963 became a member of the Agricultural Research Council and later chairmn of its Animals Research Comnittee. Moving to Leeds in 1953 as the soDnd Broheton professor of bacteriology, he was attracted by the intellectual freedom- and breadth of inteests st the university offered, as well as by the opporwtnity of taching young people both in medicine and im science. He was abile to find expression for his earlier researches in the trea of tetaus cases in colabortion with his clinial colleagues and in the superviion Of postgraduate science students, many from oversa, who worked in the difficuk field of dawification and differentiation of the clostridia. He also gave a course in statistics for postgrduate biological studets. In 1970 he was appointed CB.E. Outside his academic wo Oakley's interests were a shl wide.. In his
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stdy of science fiction he amassd 1200 books, later presented to Leeds University, while his interest in marine zoology usully claimed him for Easter vacatins. He studied both written and spoken Chinese and was inuential in the establishment of the department of Chinese studies at Leeds. But pedbaps his greatest delight was in dating dhrch ardhitectre, the study of painted gws, wvood carvings, and mosaics. He enjoyed a closely kmnit family life, supported by the care and loving companionship of his wife, wbo with their two daughters J.V.L, K.i. uvives
G. HYMAN M.B., F.R.C.S.
Mr. Geoffrey Hyman, senior orthopaedic surgeon to the Halifax hospital group, died
suddenly at bis home at Shibden on 28 March. He was 66. Geoffrey Hymn was born at Leeds on 16 August 1908 and educated at Leeds
Centrad
___
High School and Leeds 1.pUniversity., where he graduated in medicine in 1931. ~Aft,er hou-se ap-
pointments
at
Leed s General %. Infirmary and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, 'he took the F.R.C,S. in 1937. During the second world war, in company with Mr. J. M. Fitton, be was responsible for the organization, enargement, and maintenance of an excellent and essential rehabilitation service at Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield. In 1946 he was appoind orthopaedic surgeon to the Halifax hospital group; Halifax Education Committee; Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield; Leeds Jewish Hospital; and for the Ministy of Pensions aft Chapel Allerton Hospital, Leeds. He was a senior Fellow of tbe Bri-tish Orthopeedic Association. TIoUgh dogged by ill health in the latter years of hils service, he continued to fulfil al his comritments and in 1968 was appointed to the Leeds regional panel of medical appeals tribunals, an assignment he was able to continue after retirement. For him the
culnination of his career was his appointment as locum honorary consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Leeds Geneml Infirmary. He had a real interest in the affairs of Israesl, which he translated into a practical form by woring there in an honorary capacity on several occasions, especially in helping war casualties. Outside medicine his interest were in the visual arts. He was president of the Halfax Thespians from 1966 to the time of his death and founder and initial secretary of the Halifax and District Civic Trust Aprt from his deoti to duty and the iirmsculate care of his patients Geoffrey's most notable characteristic was a quiet, gentemnly dignity seasoned with a quiical smile. In thoe privileged to be among his cdose friends he inspired a deep
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and lastng loyalty. He is survived by his ren's Hospital. She spent 12 years at wife, two daughters, and a son, who is Grafton Street Fever Hospital and in 1933 training in neurology.-J.M.P.C moved to Olive Mount Children's Hospitl to deal with a severe oudbreak of measles. She sayed there to deal with further epidemcs of measles, whoopig cough, and diphtheria, and as deputy medical superD. L. ASPINALL intendent in the postwar years became an M.B., CH.B., M.R.CP'SYCH., D.P.M., acknowledged expert in the management of D.OBST.R.C.O.G. batbies and in protecting them from hospital Dr. D. L. Aspinall, consultant psychiatist infection. Though Dr. Henry's first and absorbing at York, diled on 24 February. He was 40. Dennis Leece Aspinall was born a;t Bolton, interest was the care of sick children and Lancashire, on 20 September 1934 and the development of socially deprived dhildeducated at Canon Slade Gr ar Scool, ren, she loved the open air and always Bolton, and Sheffield University, qualifying found timne for physical exercise. Walking in 1958. He took the diploma in obstetrics and golf were her principal recreations, and early in his medical career. In 1960 he she was a member of both the West Lancs the Portstewart golf clibs. She will be entered psychiatry, takaing the diploma in and missed psychological medicine in 1963 and becom- wide and remembered with affection by a circle of medical and lay friends. ing M.R.CPsyvh. in 1973. He was always interested in natural history, partiularly -J.McC. ornithology, his interest in that going back to his Bolton chidhood. While at York he was an active men*er of the Yorkshire Naturalist Union and the Mammal Society, E. R. EVANS developing a special interest in badgers. M.D. Dennis was a good friend and will be greatly missed. He is survived by his wife Dr. E. Russell Evans, medical director of and four children.-M.E.E. Sandoz Products, died on 29 MLardh He was 41. Enlyn Russell Evans was born at Swansea on 6 July 1933 and educated at G. J. MEIKLE Bihp Gore Granmar School, Swansea, M.A., M.D. and Quarry Bank High School, Liverpool. He graduated in medicine in 1958 from Dr. G. J. Meikie, who was in general prac- Liverpool University and after house aptice for many years at Malvern, Worcester- pointmnts at Broadgreen Hospital, Livershire, died on 1 March. He was 67. pool, joined Professor Andrew Wilson as a Gilbert Janmieson Meilke was bor on 19 researdh Fellow in the department of May 1907 and educated at Oundle; Clare pdharmacology of Liverpool University. He Callege, Cambridge; and the Middlesex proceeded M.D. in 1962 and returned to HoWital, where he qualified in 1932. At the clinical medicine, becoming senior house Middlesex he was house surgeon to Lord officer in medicine at Walton Hospital, Webb-Jdohnson and it was thought that his Liverpool, and then medical registar in the future career would be in surgery. However, same hospital. In 1965 he joined the he felt called to general practice and some pharmaceutical firm of Sandoz Products and 38 years ago jined his father at Malvern, became medical director in 1970. He had eventually succeeding himL He also became contact with a large number of investigators a surgeon on the staff of Malvern Hospital in Britain and worked in close callaboration and was medical officer to a number of with colleagues from Switzerland, -the schools. An active member of the B.MA., U.S.A., and Austraia. he was chairman of the Worcester and Dr. Russell Evans mntained the highest Bromsgrove Division in 1952 and its re- ethical smandard-s in his work and was well presentative at Annual Meetings on several endowed intellectually. His advice was freoccasions. In 1967 he was president of the quently sought and he combined his medical Woroestershire and Herefordshire Branch. and admiistraive duties with competence He also served on the local medkal oom- and hunur. However, his great love was to mittee and became its c an. be with his fiamily, and he eTpressed himDr. Meikle gained the respect and affec- self further with his love of grdening and tion of a wide circle and will be very mach his favourite sport, golf. His sudden and missed. He is survived by his wife and tragic death has brough-t a profound sense three children. of shock to a wide cirle of friends, CRlleagues, and acquaintances. He is survived by his wife and two sons.-W.P.M
RITA HENRY BA., M.B., B.CH., B.A.O.
Dr. Rita Henry, formerly deputy medicl sperintendent at Olive Mount Children's Hospital, Liverpool, died on 4 January. She was 83. Rita Henry was born in Uvster and lived there in retiement, but spent her working life in Liverpool hospitals. She graduated at Trinity Clege, Dublin, in 1919 and was a house physician at Liverpool Royal Infirmay and at the Royal Liverpool Child-
A memrial service for the late Mr. Aleck Boure (obituary, 11 January, p. 99) will be held in the chapel of St. Maryrs Hosital, Praed Street, London W.2, on Monday, 28 April, at 12 noon.
A memorial service for the late Mr. Norman
Capener (obituary, p. 145) will be held in Exeter Ca-thedral on Saturday, 3 May, at 4.15 p.m.
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OBITUARY NOTICES NORMAN CAPENER C.B.E., FR.C.S.
t orthoMr. Normn Capener, n paedic surgeon emeritus to the Southwestern Regional Hospital Board, died on 30 March. He was 76. Norman Leslie Capener was born on 4 May 1898 and educated at tihe City of London School and the Temple Choir, London. After a period as a surgeon sublieutenant, R.N.V.R., during the first wold war he qualified from St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 1922. He held house appointments at St. Bar tholomew's and ' for awhile was chief assistant in the surgical professorial unit. In 1924 he took the F.R.C.S. F-rom 1926 to 1931 he was an instructor in anatomy and assistant professor of sugery at Miohigan University. In 1931 he returned to Engand, settled at Exeter, and became senior orthopaedik surgeon to Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hosptal. He was also consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and to other hospitals at Plymouth and in Devon. In 1941 he was Hunterian professor to the Royal College of Surgeons and Arris and Gale lecturer in 1947. Later he gave the Robert Jones and the Thomas Vicary lectures. A menber of council of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1961 to 1973, he was a vice-president from 1971 to 1973. In 1966 he was appointed C.B.E. Mr. Capener also served as president of the Britidh Orthopaedic Association and from 1964 to 1971 was consultant adviser in orthopaedics to t-he Ministry of Healh. A prominent authority on -the ,ratment of inj,uries resulting from accidents, he became in 1964 scientific director of the Medica Commission on Accident Prevention and from 1967 was its ch n. He was also obairman of the Institute of Sports Medicine; of the British Standards Institution CAmmission on Surgicl Implants; and of the Committee for Rewardh into Appiances for the Disabled. He wrote many artices on othopaedics, biomechanics, and historical medical subjects. His recreations were art and music and as a sultor he had great talent, exhibiting regularly for many years. In 1969 the RoWal AXeit Memoril Museum and Art Galery at Exeter presented a show of his sculpture. Mr. Gapener's first wife died in 1970. He is survived by his scond wife and by his son and
daughter.
TX.S. writes: Norman Capener was a highly cultured man with many interests outside medicine and there were few aspects of literae and -he arts in wbich he was not knowledgeable. His ability to literature and hiswry was wel shown in the Vicary lecture that he recently delivered at he Royal College of Surgeons and his early experwne in the choir of -the Temple Church was a backgrund for his continued intest in early English music. Sculpture was, bowever, the exercise towards which his special energies were devoted. His sense of form and material developed under the influence of his friend Barba Hepworth, and led to the creation of some excellent works. It was Barbra Hepworth who paid hin the compliment of indi him as the central figure in one of her more important paintings. Capener's love and appreciation of the Devon countryside, and Exeter in partcular, was obvious to everyone who knew hii, and there were few societies in that a-rea to which he did not con,tribute. It was characterisdc that with his wife, Elsa, he acted as guide to visitors to the cahdral and alRowed tiem to share his enusiasmn and expertise. His enthusiasm was contagious, and this, coupled with his genle and constant courtesy, brought him friends everywhere. The tragedy of illness over his last months was lightened by the devoion of al those who cared for him, and his loss will be mourned by everyone who knew and admired him. H.O.C. writes: Norman Chpener was a very old and cherished friend. Influenced by Ehmslie and Higgs at Barnts, by Sir Robert Jones at Liverpool, by Girdlestone at Oxford, and by a great Am an ortho paedist, Dr. Carl Badgeley, of Ann Arbor, he founded from scratdh an orthopaedic service for Devon and a good deal more of she West Country. This produced first-class orthopaedic facilities for that lrge rural area centred on tthe Princess Elizabeth Hopital at Exeter, with outpatient clinics in strategic areas which were regularly visited by ortbopaedically trained aftercare nursing sistes and by bimself and colleagues whom he trained. Gradually Devonian orthopaedic services, as he liked to cal his organization, adhieved a national and internonal reputation for quality of work and teaching and training facilities. He was a man with many interts, not just find to di ine i all its aspects but in many other subjectshistory, ar, esecally sculpture and painting, and music. At one time he was a keen and very fast motoist with a love for vintge Bentleys, and a keen and knowledgeable famer. He wrote much and uidly and spoke with an almost pedianic care for peonunci n and the correct choice of words and phrase. He was so helpful to so many people and organizations righ up to
the time of his final illness sme six months ago that he wil be greatly missed and widely mourned.
C. L. OAKLEY C.B.E., D.SC., M.D., F.R.C.PATH., F.R.S.
Professor Cyril Oakley, profeor emeriau of bacteriology at Leeds Univesity, died on 27 March. He was 67. Cyril Leslie Oakley was bor at Portsmouth on 20 June 1907. In 1924 he entered University College, London, with a scholarship won at Westminster City School. He enjoyed his studies in zoology, anatomy, and physiology so much tlut by atending evening classes at Chelsea Polytechnic he was in 1930 able to graduame not only in medicine but also with first-clss honours in zoology. Ths capacity for scholaship, dided by a quite remarkable memory, distinguishedall that he did in his academic career, university work, and hobbies. After four years' postgaduate experience be joined the staff of the Welkome Research Laboratories and for 19 years took a major part in developing safe and effective immunological tedhniques for -the therapy and prophylaxis of diphtheria, tetanus, and gas gangrene. His work on the clostridial toxins was of great value in red,ucing wound infections in the second world war, and this interest in- the field of i logy d ted his research throughout his academic career, resulting in his election to the Felloship of the Royal Society in 1957. From 1950 he took an increasing part in the editorship of the 7oual of Pathology and Bacteriology., becoming chief editor in 1956, and characteristically, when that already arduous task was divided, continued to edit both the Youral of Pathology and the 7ounau of Medical Microbiology. He was a founder Fellow and menter of council of the Royal College of Pahologists, and in 1963 became a member of the Agricultural Research Council and later chairmn of its Animals Research Comnittee. Moving to Leeds in 1953 as the soDnd Broheton professor of bacteriology, he was attracted by the intellectual freedom- and breadth of inteests st the university offered, as well as by the opporwtnity of taching young people both in medicine and im science. He was abile to find expression for his earlier researches in the trea of tetaus cases in colabortion with his clinial colleagues and in the superviion Of postgraduate science students, many from oversa, who worked in the difficuk field of dawification and differentiation of the clostridia. He also gave a course in statistics for postgrduate biological studets. In 1970 he was appointed CB.E. Outside his academic wo Oakley's interests were a shl wide.. In his
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stdy of science fiction he amassd 1200 books, later presented to Leeds University, while his interest in marine zoology usully claimed him for Easter vacatins. He studied both written and spoken Chinese and was inuential in the establishment of the department of Chinese studies at Leeds. But pedbaps his greatest delight was in dating dhrch ardhitectre, the study of painted gws, wvood carvings, and mosaics. He enjoyed a closely kmnit family life, supported by the care and loving companionship of his wife, wbo with their two daughters J.V.L, K.i. uvives
G. HYMAN M.B., F.R.C.S.
Mr. Geoffrey Hyman, senior orthopaedic surgeon to the Halifax hospital group, died
suddenly at bis home at Shibden on 28 March. He was 66. Geoffrey Hymn was born at Leeds on 16 August 1908 and educated at Leeds
Centrad
___
High School and Leeds 1.pUniversity., where he graduated in medicine in 1931. ~Aft,er hou-se ap-
pointments
at
Leed s General %. Infirmary and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, 'he took the F.R.C,S. in 1937. During the second world war, in company with Mr. J. M. Fitton, be was responsible for the organization, enargement, and maintenance of an excellent and essential rehabilitation service at Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield. In 1946 he was appoind orthopaedic surgeon to the Halifax hospital group; Halifax Education Committee; Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield; Leeds Jewish Hospital; and for the Ministy of Pensions aft Chapel Allerton Hospital, Leeds. He was a senior Fellow of tbe Bri-tish Orthopeedic Association. TIoUgh dogged by ill health in the latter years of hils service, he continued to fulfil al his comritments and in 1968 was appointed to the Leeds regional panel of medical appeals tribunals, an assignment he was able to continue after retirement. For him the
culnination of his career was his appointment as locum honorary consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Leeds Geneml Infirmary. He had a real interest in the affairs of Israesl, which he translated into a practical form by woring there in an honorary capacity on several occasions, especially in helping war casualties. Outside medicine his interest were in the visual arts. He was president of the Halfax Thespians from 1966 to the time of his death and founder and initial secretary of the Halifax and District Civic Trust Aprt from his deoti to duty and the iirmsculate care of his patients Geoffrey's most notable characteristic was a quiet, gentemnly dignity seasoned with a quiical smile. In thoe privileged to be among his cdose friends he inspired a deep
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and lastng loyalty. He is survived by his ren's Hospital. She spent 12 years at wife, two daughters, and a son, who is Grafton Street Fever Hospital and in 1933 training in neurology.-J.M.P.C moved to Olive Mount Children's Hospitl to deal with a severe oudbreak of measles. She sayed there to deal with further epidemcs of measles, whoopig cough, and diphtheria, and as deputy medical superD. L. ASPINALL intendent in the postwar years became an M.B., CH.B., M.R.CP'SYCH., D.P.M., acknowledged expert in the management of D.OBST.R.C.O.G. batbies and in protecting them from hospital Dr. D. L. Aspinall, consultant psychiatist infection. Though Dr. Henry's first and absorbing at York, diled on 24 February. He was 40. Dennis Leece Aspinall was born a;t Bolton, interest was the care of sick children and Lancashire, on 20 September 1934 and the development of socially deprived dhildeducated at Canon Slade Gr ar Scool, ren, she loved the open air and always Bolton, and Sheffield University, qualifying found timne for physical exercise. Walking in 1958. He took the diploma in obstetrics and golf were her principal recreations, and early in his medical career. In 1960 he she was a member of both the West Lancs the Portstewart golf clibs. She will be entered psychiatry, takaing the diploma in and missed psychological medicine in 1963 and becom- wide and remembered with affection by a circle of medical and lay friends. ing M.R.CPsyvh. in 1973. He was always interested in natural history, partiularly -J.McC. ornithology, his interest in that going back to his Bolton chidhood. While at York he was an active men*er of the Yorkshire Naturalist Union and the Mammal Society, E. R. EVANS developing a special interest in badgers. M.D. Dennis was a good friend and will be greatly missed. He is survived by his wife Dr. E. Russell Evans, medical director of and four children.-M.E.E. Sandoz Products, died on 29 MLardh He was 41. Enlyn Russell Evans was born at Swansea on 6 July 1933 and educated at G. J. MEIKLE Bihp Gore Granmar School, Swansea, M.A., M.D. and Quarry Bank High School, Liverpool. He graduated in medicine in 1958 from Dr. G. J. Meikie, who was in general prac- Liverpool University and after house aptice for many years at Malvern, Worcester- pointmnts at Broadgreen Hospital, Livershire, died on 1 March. He was 67. pool, joined Professor Andrew Wilson as a Gilbert Janmieson Meilke was bor on 19 researdh Fellow in the department of May 1907 and educated at Oundle; Clare pdharmacology of Liverpool University. He Callege, Cambridge; and the Middlesex proceeded M.D. in 1962 and returned to HoWital, where he qualified in 1932. At the clinical medicine, becoming senior house Middlesex he was house surgeon to Lord officer in medicine at Walton Hospital, Webb-Jdohnson and it was thought that his Liverpool, and then medical registar in the future career would be in surgery. However, same hospital. In 1965 he joined the he felt called to general practice and some pharmaceutical firm of Sandoz Products and 38 years ago jined his father at Malvern, became medical director in 1970. He had eventually succeeding himL He also became contact with a large number of investigators a surgeon on the staff of Malvern Hospital in Britain and worked in close callaboration and was medical officer to a number of with colleagues from Switzerland, -the schools. An active member of the B.MA., U.S.A., and Austraia. he was chairman of the Worcester and Dr. Russell Evans mntained the highest Bromsgrove Division in 1952 and its re- ethical smandard-s in his work and was well presentative at Annual Meetings on several endowed intellectually. His advice was freoccasions. In 1967 he was president of the quently sought and he combined his medical Woroestershire and Herefordshire Branch. and admiistraive duties with competence He also served on the local medkal oom- and hunur. However, his great love was to mittee and became its c an. be with his fiamily, and he eTpressed himDr. Meikle gained the respect and affec- self further with his love of grdening and tion of a wide circle and will be very mach his favourite sport, golf. His sudden and missed. He is survived by his wife and tragic death has brough-t a profound sense three children. of shock to a wide cirle of friends, CRlleagues, and acquaintances. He is survived by his wife and two sons.-W.P.M
RITA HENRY BA., M.B., B.CH., B.A.O.
Dr. Rita Henry, formerly deputy medicl sperintendent at Olive Mount Children's Hospital, Liverpool, died on 4 January. She was 83. Rita Henry was born in Uvster and lived there in retiement, but spent her working life in Liverpool hospitals. She graduated at Trinity Clege, Dublin, in 1919 and was a house physician at Liverpool Royal Infirmay and at the Royal Liverpool Child-
A memrial service for the late Mr. Aleck Boure (obituary, 11 January, p. 99) will be held in the chapel of St. Maryrs Hosital, Praed Street, London W.2, on Monday, 28 April, at 12 noon.
A memorial service for the late Mr. Norman
Capener (obituary, p. 145) will be held in Exeter Ca-thedral on Saturday, 3 May, at 4.15 p.m.
