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Obituary JOHN NORTON MILLS 1).Ni., B.Sc.Oxon., M.D.Cantab., M.Sc.Manc. Dr J. N. Mills, Brackenbury professor of physiology at
Manchester University, died in
North Wales on Dec. 3 He
was
born into
a
at
a
climbing
accident in
the age of 63.
medical
family
and
was
educated
at
Dr JEREMIAH MORTIMER SLATTERY, a general practitioner in Hampstead, London, and clinical assistant in the gynoccology department at Whipps Cross Hospital, died on Nov. 19 at the age of 60. He specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology and worked at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, and in Ibadan and Canada, before settling in general practice.
Dr ERNEST BURFORD WEEKS, formerly chief of planning and programme in the division of malaria eradication, World Health Organisation, Geneva, died on Dec. 3.
Winchester, Oxford’ University (New College and Christ .
and Birmingham Medical School. After qualifying in 1939 and a brief period in general practice, he returned to the academic environment with a lectureship at New College, Oxford (1941-46) and a fellowship and lectureship at Jesus
Church),
College, Cambridge (1946-50). In 1950 he
Manchester human senior lecturer and then reader, and succeeding Walter Schlapp as Brackenbury professor in 1965. At Manchester his earlier research interests in respiratory and renal physiology led to a long-term study of the components and underlying mechanisms of human circadian rhythms and the "internal clock",which had practical applications for shift-work and jet travel. Work on humans living in caves and in experimental isolation was succeeded by the establishment of an isolation unit at Risley, and a series of papers prepared during a sabbatical year, 1976-77, are now in press. He was a respected world authority on circadian rhythms, serving as British representative on the committee of the International Society for Chronobiology and on the advisory board of its journal. He was co-author (with R. T. W. L. Conroy) of Human Circadian Rhythms, and he contributed numerous chapters in other texts. The Physiological Society, the Renal Association, the Linnean Society, and the journal of Physiology can all bear witness to his contributions. His tenure as professor covered the labours of planning and developing a well-equipped department in the new Medical School. He will also be remembered as a propagandist of departmental boards and as a representative of non-professorial staff on senate and council; as founder editor of the university staff magazine, for which he wrote perceptive and humorous articles; and for his work on revision of the university charter. A devout Christian and supporter of the university chaplaincy, John Mills had depths of enthusiasm, warmth, understanding, and tolerance. His personality and skills as a teacher were best seen in the small-group, personal setting. As a physiologist he believed that human experimentation should involve the researchers, and his example and leadership induced a succession of fearless volunteers into a sequence of experimental procedures which occasionally alarmed their dependants. With his research interests, his skill and enjoyment in climbing and field botany, and his delight in intellectual and physical challenge, it was inevitable that a fund of tales of mishap, hilarity, and eccentricity should accumulate over the years. And with his love of good food, good wine, enthusiastic conversation, it was appropriate that these stories should emerge in the convivial atmosphere of staff-student occasions and in the informal relaxed accompaniments to meetings of learned societies and of international scientific conferences. He made a firm decision to retire at 65, and his death seems because of this the more premature and cruel, but he did at least die in surroundings he loved. went to
University as lecturer in physiology, becoming
He is survived hv his wife. June and hv three children.
Appointments DARLINGTON, LYNDA G., M.B.Lond.,
M.R.C.P. : consultant physician with an inin rheumatology, Epsom District Hospital. GIBSON, W. P. R., M.D.Lond., F.R.C.S. : consultant E.N.T. surgeon, National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases, London. HODGSON, H. J. F., B.M., B.sc.Oxon., M.R.C.P. : consultant gastroenterologist, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London. JILANI, M. M., M.B.Jammu and Kashmir, M.R.C.PSYCH., D.P.M.: consultant m terest
psychogeriatrics, Pen-y-Fal Hospital, Abergavenny. PAYAN, JOSÉ, M.B.Lond., M.R.C.P. : consultant with special expertise in electromyography, Hospital for Sick Children, London. PEPYS, M. B., M.B., PH.D.Cantab., M.R.C.P. : consultant, departments of medicine and immunology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London. North East Thames
BEAUGIÉ, ANN V.,
Hospital,
M.B.
Regional
Health
Authority:
anaesthetist. Royal Free district, Camden and Islington A.H.A. (teaching). Birm., F.F.A. R.c.s.: consultant anaesthetist, Basildon
Lond.,
F.F.A. R.c.s.:
consultant
North Camden
BEVAN, JOSEPHINE C., M.B. and Thurrock district, Essex A.H.A. BLIGH, M. R., M.B. Lond., B.S. Exeter,
trist, Woodbury
M.R.C.PSYCH. :
Down Child Guidance Clinic,
consultant child
psychia-
City and East London A.H.A.
(teaching). M.B. Lond., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.S.E. : consultant general surgeon, Havering district, Barking and Havering A.H.A. BUCKNILL, T. M., M.B. Lond., F.R.C.S.: consultant orthopaedic surgeon, St.
BROCK, T. P.,
Bartholomew’s and
Hackney Hospitals, City
and East London
A.H.A.
(teaching). CANTRELL, W. D. JANE, M.B. Lond., F.F.A. R.C.S. : consultant anaesthetist, West Roding district, Redbridge and Waltham Forest A.H.A. CHEN, V. T., M.B. Melb., F.R.C.S.E., F.R.A.C.S. : consultant orthopaedic surgeon, East
Roding district, Redbridge and Waltham Forest A.H.A. M.B. Delhi, F.R.C.S.E., D.L.O. : consultant E.N.T. surgeon, Barking district, Barking and Havering A.H.A. CLENDINNEN, B. G., CH.M. Birm., F.R.C.S. : consultant general surgeon, Whittington and Royal Northern Hospitals, Camden and Islington A.H.A. (teaching). DAVIES, R. J., M.B. Cantab., M.R.C.P. : consultant physician in general and thoracic medicine, St. Bartholomew’s and St. Leonard’s Hospitals, City and East London A.H.A. (teaching). KEMBLE, J. V. H., M.B. Cantab., F.R.C.S. : consultant plastic surgeon, Regional Centre for Plastic Surgery, St. Andrew’s Hospital, Billericay, and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. KLASSNIK, BENJAMIN, M.B. W’srand, M.R.C.PSYCH., D.P.M. : consultant psychiatrist with a special interest in psychogeriatrics, West Roding district, Redbridge and Waltham Forest A.H.A. LEE, PATRICIA, M.B. Lond., F.F.A. R.c.s.: consultant anaesthetist. Royal Northern Hospital and City of London Maternity Hospital, Camden and Islington A.H.A. (teaching). O’CONNELL, BRIDGET, M.D. N.U.I., M.R.C.P., M.R.C.P.E., D.C.H. : consultant pædiatrician, East Roding district, Redbridge and Waltham Forest A.H.A. SLATTERY, ZOE T., M.B. Lond., M.R.C.PSYCH., D.C.H. : consultant psychiatrist with a special interest in the elderly, Goodmayes Hospital, East Roding district, Redbridge and Waltham Forest A.H.A. CHOPRA, B. D.,
East
Anglian Regional
GODWIN, R. J.,
M.B.
Health
Cantab.,
Authority:
M.R.C.P., F.R.C.R., D.M.R.D.: consultant radiolo-
gist, Bury St. Edmunds health district. LUXTON, D. E. A., B.M. Oxon., M.R.C.P. : consultant geriatrician, King’s Lynn health district. MCCANN, B. G., M.B. N.U.I., M.R.C.PATH. : consultant histopathologist, Norwich health district.
MCLEAN, J. G. M., M.B. Durh., M.R.C.O.G. : consultant gynaecologist and obstetrician, Great Yarmouth and Waveney health district. MARTIN, MARGARET M. R., M.B. Edin., M.R.C.O.G., F.R.C.S.E. : consultant gynæcologist and obstetrician, Bury St. Edmunds health district. REYNOLDS, C. M., M.B. Lond., M.R.C.PSYCH., D.P.M. : consultant in mental illness,
Norwich health district.
STEVENS, M. J., M.R.C.S.,
M.R.C.P., M.R.C.PSYCH.: consultant in mental
Ipswich health district.
illness,
Obituary JOHN NORTON MILLS 1).Ni., B.Sc.Oxon., M.D.Cantab., M.Sc.Manc. Dr J. N. Mills, Brackenbury professor of physiology at
Manchester University, died in
North Wales on Dec. 3 He
was
born into
a
at
a
climbing
accident in
the age of 63.
medical
family
and
was
educated
at
Dr JEREMIAH MORTIMER SLATTERY, a general practitioner in Hampstead, London, and clinical assistant in the gynoccology department at Whipps Cross Hospital, died on Nov. 19 at the age of 60. He specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology and worked at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, and in Ibadan and Canada, before settling in general practice.
Dr ERNEST BURFORD WEEKS, formerly chief of planning and programme in the division of malaria eradication, World Health Organisation, Geneva, died on Dec. 3.
Winchester, Oxford’ University (New College and Christ .
and Birmingham Medical School. After qualifying in 1939 and a brief period in general practice, he returned to the academic environment with a lectureship at New College, Oxford (1941-46) and a fellowship and lectureship at Jesus
Church),
College, Cambridge (1946-50). In 1950 he
Manchester human senior lecturer and then reader, and succeeding Walter Schlapp as Brackenbury professor in 1965. At Manchester his earlier research interests in respiratory and renal physiology led to a long-term study of the components and underlying mechanisms of human circadian rhythms and the "internal clock",which had practical applications for shift-work and jet travel. Work on humans living in caves and in experimental isolation was succeeded by the establishment of an isolation unit at Risley, and a series of papers prepared during a sabbatical year, 1976-77, are now in press. He was a respected world authority on circadian rhythms, serving as British representative on the committee of the International Society for Chronobiology and on the advisory board of its journal. He was co-author (with R. T. W. L. Conroy) of Human Circadian Rhythms, and he contributed numerous chapters in other texts. The Physiological Society, the Renal Association, the Linnean Society, and the journal of Physiology can all bear witness to his contributions. His tenure as professor covered the labours of planning and developing a well-equipped department in the new Medical School. He will also be remembered as a propagandist of departmental boards and as a representative of non-professorial staff on senate and council; as founder editor of the university staff magazine, for which he wrote perceptive and humorous articles; and for his work on revision of the university charter. A devout Christian and supporter of the university chaplaincy, John Mills had depths of enthusiasm, warmth, understanding, and tolerance. His personality and skills as a teacher were best seen in the small-group, personal setting. As a physiologist he believed that human experimentation should involve the researchers, and his example and leadership induced a succession of fearless volunteers into a sequence of experimental procedures which occasionally alarmed their dependants. With his research interests, his skill and enjoyment in climbing and field botany, and his delight in intellectual and physical challenge, it was inevitable that a fund of tales of mishap, hilarity, and eccentricity should accumulate over the years. And with his love of good food, good wine, enthusiastic conversation, it was appropriate that these stories should emerge in the convivial atmosphere of staff-student occasions and in the informal relaxed accompaniments to meetings of learned societies and of international scientific conferences. He made a firm decision to retire at 65, and his death seems because of this the more premature and cruel, but he did at least die in surroundings he loved. went to
University as lecturer in physiology, becoming
He is survived hv his wife. June and hv three children.
Appointments DARLINGTON, LYNDA G., M.B.Lond.,
M.R.C.P. : consultant physician with an inin rheumatology, Epsom District Hospital. GIBSON, W. P. R., M.D.Lond., F.R.C.S. : consultant E.N.T. surgeon, National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases, London. HODGSON, H. J. F., B.M., B.sc.Oxon., M.R.C.P. : consultant gastroenterologist, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London. JILANI, M. M., M.B.Jammu and Kashmir, M.R.C.PSYCH., D.P.M.: consultant m terest
psychogeriatrics, Pen-y-Fal Hospital, Abergavenny. PAYAN, JOSÉ, M.B.Lond., M.R.C.P. : consultant with special expertise in electromyography, Hospital for Sick Children, London. PEPYS, M. B., M.B., PH.D.Cantab., M.R.C.P. : consultant, departments of medicine and immunology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London. North East Thames
BEAUGIÉ, ANN V.,
Hospital,
M.B.
Regional
Health
Authority:
anaesthetist. Royal Free district, Camden and Islington A.H.A. (teaching). Birm., F.F.A. R.c.s.: consultant anaesthetist, Basildon
Lond.,
F.F.A. R.c.s.:
consultant
North Camden
BEVAN, JOSEPHINE C., M.B. and Thurrock district, Essex A.H.A. BLIGH, M. R., M.B. Lond., B.S. Exeter,
trist, Woodbury
M.R.C.PSYCH. :
Down Child Guidance Clinic,
consultant child
psychia-
City and East London A.H.A.
(teaching). M.B. Lond., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.S.E. : consultant general surgeon, Havering district, Barking and Havering A.H.A. BUCKNILL, T. M., M.B. Lond., F.R.C.S.: consultant orthopaedic surgeon, St.
BROCK, T. P.,
Bartholomew’s and
Hackney Hospitals, City
and East London
A.H.A.
(teaching). CANTRELL, W. D. JANE, M.B. Lond., F.F.A. R.C.S. : consultant anaesthetist, West Roding district, Redbridge and Waltham Forest A.H.A. CHEN, V. T., M.B. Melb., F.R.C.S.E., F.R.A.C.S. : consultant orthopaedic surgeon, East
Roding district, Redbridge and Waltham Forest A.H.A. M.B. Delhi, F.R.C.S.E., D.L.O. : consultant E.N.T. surgeon, Barking district, Barking and Havering A.H.A. CLENDINNEN, B. G., CH.M. Birm., F.R.C.S. : consultant general surgeon, Whittington and Royal Northern Hospitals, Camden and Islington A.H.A. (teaching). DAVIES, R. J., M.B. Cantab., M.R.C.P. : consultant physician in general and thoracic medicine, St. Bartholomew’s and St. Leonard’s Hospitals, City and East London A.H.A. (teaching). KEMBLE, J. V. H., M.B. Cantab., F.R.C.S. : consultant plastic surgeon, Regional Centre for Plastic Surgery, St. Andrew’s Hospital, Billericay, and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. KLASSNIK, BENJAMIN, M.B. W’srand, M.R.C.PSYCH., D.P.M. : consultant psychiatrist with a special interest in psychogeriatrics, West Roding district, Redbridge and Waltham Forest A.H.A. LEE, PATRICIA, M.B. Lond., F.F.A. R.c.s.: consultant anaesthetist. Royal Northern Hospital and City of London Maternity Hospital, Camden and Islington A.H.A. (teaching). O’CONNELL, BRIDGET, M.D. N.U.I., M.R.C.P., M.R.C.P.E., D.C.H. : consultant pædiatrician, East Roding district, Redbridge and Waltham Forest A.H.A. SLATTERY, ZOE T., M.B. Lond., M.R.C.PSYCH., D.C.H. : consultant psychiatrist with a special interest in the elderly, Goodmayes Hospital, East Roding district, Redbridge and Waltham Forest A.H.A. CHOPRA, B. D.,
East
Anglian Regional
GODWIN, R. J.,
M.B.
Health
Cantab.,
Authority:
M.R.C.P., F.R.C.R., D.M.R.D.: consultant radiolo-
gist, Bury St. Edmunds health district. LUXTON, D. E. A., B.M. Oxon., M.R.C.P. : consultant geriatrician, King’s Lynn health district. MCCANN, B. G., M.B. N.U.I., M.R.C.PATH. : consultant histopathologist, Norwich health district.
MCLEAN, J. G. M., M.B. Durh., M.R.C.O.G. : consultant gynaecologist and obstetrician, Great Yarmouth and Waveney health district. MARTIN, MARGARET M. R., M.B. Edin., M.R.C.O.G., F.R.C.S.E. : consultant gynæcologist and obstetrician, Bury St. Edmunds health district. REYNOLDS, C. M., M.B. Lond., M.R.C.PSYCH., D.P.M. : consultant in mental illness,
Norwich health district.
STEVENS, M. J., M.R.C.S.,
M.R.C.P., M.R.C.PSYCH.: consultant in mental
Ipswich health district.
illness,