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D; ., in a range of paints to match any room, and self-at,’Å 19 water heaters for surgery basins and sinks.-(67) KOLYNOS INCORPORATED (Chenies-street, W.C.)had a new shaving cream to show, in addition totl r dental cream and mouth wash.-(19) THEtMCAL AGENCY, LIMITED (Dudley House, 36-38,/uthampton-street, W.C.), were again present toform doctors of the valuable services which they

can obtain in such matters as locum tenents,assistants,medical accountancy of all kinds, loans and insurance.(161) MEDICAL SICKNESS ANNUITY AND LIFEASSURANCE SOCIETY, LTD. (300, High Holborn, W.C.),had a stand to remind practitioners of the Societyfounded by medical men and conducted solely fortheir benefit, providing all forms of sickness, accident,life and pension insurance and loan schemes.

OBITUARY

. SIR HAVELOCK CHARLES, G.C.V.O.,M.D. Q.U.I., F.R.C.S.I.

’’ JOR-GENIERAL, I.M.S. ; HON. SERJEANT-SURGEON TO THE KING

THE death occurred on Saturday last of Sir Havelock, varies, a distinguished officer in the Indian Medical:.5brvice and an earnest worker in the cause of tropicalmedicine.Havelock Henry Richard Charles was the son of

Dr. D. H. Charles, of Cookstown, Tyrone, and receivedhis medical education at Queen’s College, Cork. He

graduated as M.D. Q.U.I. in 1881 with first-classhonours, gainingthe gold medal formedicine, and, afterpostgraduate studyat various centreson the continent,entered the IndianMedical Service. Hetook the first placein the competitiveexamination andwhile at Netleygained the HerbertPrize, the Monte-fiore Prize, and theParkes Medal. Aswas natural after sosuccessful a careeras a student hesoon obtained

special employ-ment, and from1884 was for two

years in part medi-cal charge of the

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Escort and Field Hospital which accompanied theAfghan Boundary Commission ; the medical responsi-bilities thus incurred he afterwards described in abook. There followed now important teaching appoint-ments in connexion with the I.M.S. He was consecu-

tively professor of surgery and anatomy in the medicalcolleges of Lahore and Calcutta, and surgeon to theMayo Hospital in Lahore. In 1905 his close connexionwith the Court commenced, for he accompanied thepresent King and Queen, then Prince and Princess ofWales, on their Indian tour, at the conclusion ofwhich he was appointed K.C.V.O. In 1908 he retiredfrom the Service with a pension.On his return to England he immediately began to

take an active interest in the development of tropicalmedicine, the importance of which to the Empire hadbeen growing more generally obvious. In 1910 hebecame dean of the London School of TropicalMedicine, and at the same time he presided over themeetings of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicineand Hygiene. In 1910 he was appointed Serjeant-Surgeon to the King, and in 1911-12 he accompaniedthe King and Queen when they revisited India. Onhis return from India he was promoted G.C.V.O. andgazetted Honorary Surgeon-General. At the same

time he was appointed president of the medical boardof the India Office, a post which he held until 1923,being at the same time medical adviser to the Secretaryof State for India. In 1923 he was created K.C.S.L,and a baronet in 1928. On his resignation in 1928of the post of Serjeant-Surgeon to the King, he wasmade Honorary Serjeant-Surgeon, a new and personalappointment. He received many academic distinctions in addition to those from the Crown. In 1906he was awarded the honorary medal of the RoyalCollege of Surgeons of England, and in the followingyear the Arnott medal. He was given the honorarydegree of LL.D. at Queen’s University, Belfast, and wasmade an honorary F.R.C.S. Irel. He was not a profusewriter, but he contributed to the medical journals,the Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, and theJournal of the Asiatic Society, papers on anatomy,surgery and anthropology, and he wrote memoirs ofhis brother officers in the Indian Medical Gazette. Hewas a Visitor of King Edward’s Hospital Fund forLondon, a Knight of Justice in the Order of St. Johnof Jerusalem.

Sir Havelock Charles, who had been a widower forten years, married in 1886 Gertrude, daughter of thelate Adam Gordon of Aberdeen, by whom he hadtwo sons, who survive him.

We owe to Sir Leonard Rogers the following tribute : o" In Sir Richard Havelock Charles the Indian MedicalService has lost its most distinguished member. Hewas a marked man from the time he entered theService as a gold medallist and at the head of hisbatch during a time of keen competition. In hissecond year in India he was appointed surgeon tothe Afghan Boundary Commission, and not very longafter he was made professor of anatomy and surgeryat the Lahore Medical College. Here his ability andenthusiasm resulted in the complete reorganisationof the department to become the first of its kind inIndia, and at the same time he did much originalresearch work on differences between the skeletonsof Europeans and Indians, which had importantmedico-legal applications both in craniology and

anthropology. So outstanding was this work thatwhen a vacancy occurred in a similar post in theCalcutta Medical College the Government of Indiaappointed him to it ; one of the very few occasionsin which an I.M.S. officer of another province wasappointed to a Calcutta medical professorship. Herehe was equally successful in reorganising the teachingof anatomy, while he also proved to be an up-to-dateand successful surgeon, and, on promotion to theprofessorship, an excellent teacher in that subject.As first surgeon to the hospital he was particularlysuccessful in operations for elephantiasis of thescrotum, and effected important improvements, moreparticularly in primary skin grafting to restore thefunctions of the male organ. He also obtained com-paratively good results with the open operation forliver abscesses, then in general use, and here hestressed the importance of the surgeon himself doingthe early dressings to mimimise the dangers of

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secondary septic infections in the humid germ-ladenBengal climate. His great abilities and energy, addedby the gradual retirement of his more senior colleagues,enabled him to build up an extensive private practice."When the Prince and Princess of Wales went to

India in 1905-1906 Sir Havelock was the obviouschoice for surgeon, and in 1911 he returned to Indiawith them when they had become King and Queen,and retained Their Majesties’ confidence when he wasSerjeant-Surgeon to the King. He retired in 1908 atan early age to the great loss of surgery in India,but he now entered on an equally successful adminis-trative career as successively member and presidentof the Medical Board, and during the war in the newpost of medical adviser to the Secretary of State.This was the late E. S. Montagu, whose confidencein Havelock Charles enabled Charles to obtain the

important increases of pay, and the retiring gratuitiesat the end of six and twelve years’ service respectively,that were necessary to continue to attract recruitsfor the I.M.S. in view of the uncertainties as to

prospects accompanying the grant of increased politicalpower to Indians. In 1928 he retired from the IndiaOffice under the age rules full of honours, and with arecord of good service probably only second to thatof Sir Joseph Fayrer in the whole history of theI.M.S. Sir Havelock combined with exceptionalability high ideals and great strength of character ;these made him a doughty opponent, but also a loyaland powerful friend who was ever ready to help anywhom he deemed to be deserving of it. We shall notsoon see his like again."

DAVID ROGER MOIR, M.B., Ch.B. Aberd.

BoRN in Dundee Dr. David Roger Moir waseducated at the University of Aberdeen, where hegraduated in arts in 1893, taking the degrees ofM.B., Ch.B. in 1898. After holding junior appoint-ments in Aberdeen, he settled in practice at Hull andlater became surgeon to the Hull and SculcoatesDispensary. He conducted a large practice skilfully,was president of the Hull Medical Association, andoutside his strictly professional duties devoted a gooddeal of time to the work of the St. John AmbulanceAssociation. He acted as medical officer in manycompensation cases arising out of injuries received inthe docks, and after the war was a particularly usefulexaminer for the Ministry of Pensions of disabledmen. Here those whom he examined were gratefulfor the sympathetic discharge of his responsibilitiestowards the country and themselves. He was anactive member of the board of management of theHull Royal Infirmary and had been president of theHull and East Yorkshire Division of the B.M.A. Hisdeath has deprived Hull of a valuable citizen.

FREDERIC VIVIAN BEVAN-BROWN, M.D.Lond.,M.R.C.P.

WE have learnt from a correspondent of the deathof Dr. Frederic Bevan-Brown which occurred at hishome in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is an untimelyevent and a career of good performance and highpromise has been unduly terminated. He was bornin 1888, the son of the headmaster of ChristchurchHigh School, and after some preliminary medicalstudy in that city came to England and entered Guy’sHospital as a medical student. From the beginninghe showed his quality. He acquired the Englishdouble diploma in 1913 and three years later graduatedat the University of London as M.D., B.S. It was

now the middle term of the war, and Bevan-Brownjoined up immediately with the R.A.M.C., saw servicein Mesopotamia and on the Western Front, andremained at his military duties until the armistice.On the cessation of hostilities he returned to Guy’sHospital and held various house appointments andgained in 1920 the diploma of M.R.C.P. Lond. andproceeded to the doctor’s degree. He then returnedto New Zealand, acquired at the University of NewZealand the degrees of M.B., Ch.B., and was appointeda physician to the Christchurch Hospital. Here hedid admirable clinical and teaching service and inaddition to written contributions upon variousmedical topics wrote suggestively upon the relationsbetween the psychic and the physical sides of disease.He was deeply interested in the religious aspects ofhis calling and was appointed Lay Canon to Christ-church Cathedral. The community not only inChristchurch but in all New Zealand have lost inDr. Bevan-Brown a valuable member.

BRERETON GEORGE ELLIOTT, L.R.C.P.S.I.Dr. Brereton Elliott, whose death was announced

recently, was resident medical officer at the FazakerleySanatorium, Liverpool. The son of a clergymanat Armagh, he qualified for the double Irish diplomain 1890 and practised for a time at Cherry Tree andat Whitton, near Blackburn, where he was prominentin founding the Blackburn Division of the St. JohnAmbulance Association. He also held a commissionin the East Lancashire Volunteers, and on the out-break of war accompanied this regiment, now theEast Lancashire Territorials, to Egypt and foughtas a combatant officer there and in Gallipoli. He waspromoted major, and was later appointed to commanda military hospital in Egypt. Shortly after his returnto this country he became resident medical officerat the Fazakerley Sanatorium, the position whichhe held at his untimely death. He had suffered

considerably from the strain of the war.

JAMES CRAWFORD CRAIG, M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H.

Dr. James Craig, whose death we recentlyannounced, received his medical education at Univer-sity College, London, and the University of Edinburgh.He decided, rather later than usual, to enter themedical profession, and was already a graduate inarts at his University when he became a medicalstudent. He made his mark at once, holding the postof bursary in pathology in 1907 and graduating asM.B., Ch.B. with honours in 1908. He served as

house surgeon at the Royal Maternity and SimpsonMemorial Hospital in Edinburgh and was for a longperiod clinical assistant to the Central London Ear,Nose, and Throat Hospital. He now came to Londonand obtained the D.P.H. diploma of the EnglishColleges and went into general practice, at the sametime acting as surgeon to the Royal Bucks Hospitalat Aylesbury, and taking special interest in dermato-logy. Dr. Craig was a thoroughly well-equippedpractitioner and his loss will be felt by many patients.

INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGY.-Dr. LeonhardSeif, of Munich, will give a course of three eveninglectures at the institute (Malet-place, London, W.C.),on Nov. 20th, 23rd, and 26th, on the principles andpractice of individual psychology. The course has been

arranged by the Child Guidance Council for members ofclinic staffs and others interested and the lectures willtake place at 8.30 P.M.