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foundation of Mengo Hospital, a fund was raised torebuild the hospital, and the Uganda branch of theB.M.A. held a three-day interterritiorial meeting tohonour its founder."To those of us who were concerned with medical

education in East Africa," writes H. J. O’D. B-G-.," the Cook tradition was almost symbolic. The vastmedical library at Mengo, with its detailed records andcase-sheets from the earliest days, is a monument toCook’s care and accuracy. He was a simple man ofsimple faith-a missionary in the fullest sense, for he hada mission to fulfil and spared nothing of himself in itsfulfilment. His own words reveal the nature of thatmission: ’to attempt to heal the suffering body is much,to carry the water of salvation to thirsty souls is more,but to combine the two is the grandest work a mancan have.’ Thousands of Africans are poorer for hispassing, but healthier and happier for the care andwisdom and sympathy which he gave to them."

‘ PAUL JENNER VERRALLM.B. Camb., F.R.C.S.

Mr. Jenner Verrall, who died on April 22, was ortho-paedic surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital, and lecturerin orthopaedic surgery at the London School of medicinefor Women from 1926 to 1945. But he will also beremembered for his great experience of military ortho-pædic surgery. For well over thirty years he wasassociated with the Ministry of Pensions, at first as

orthopaedic surgeon at two of their largest hospitals,and for the last ten years or so as orthopaedic specialistat the regional offices in London. At the beginningof the late war he was a member of the war woundscommittee of the Medical Research Council.Born in 1883 at Brighton, the son of the late Sir

Thomas Verrall, M.R.C.S., he was educated at Winchester,Trinity College, Cambridge, and St. Bartholomew’sHospital. In 1908 he qualified, and two years later he tookhis F.R.C.s. The same year he was appointed to theorthopaedic department at St. Bartholomew’s Hospitalwhere he worked as assistant to Mr. R. C. Elmslie. In 1915he volunteered for service with the R.A.M.C., but he wasinvalided home after a year in Egypt. He then becameone of the original team of orthopaedic surgeons whomSir Robert Jones chose to help him in the task oforganising the special surgical hospitals to deal with themany thousands of wounded whose injuries came underthe somewhat elastic designation of " orthopaedic."The biggest of these hospitals was set up at Shepherd’sBush, and it was to this hospital that Verrall wasattached. ’

After the war his orthopaedic colleagues returned oneby one to the ever-widening field of civilian orthopaedics ;but Verrall remained to carry on the work, at first atShepherd’s Bush and then, after 1925, at Queen Mary’s(Roehampton) Hospital, to which the Ministry of Pensionshad transferred all their surgical work in London. Hereto his orthopaedic work was added the thousands ofmen with amputations attending the Roehampton limb-fitting centre who for some reason or another were havingtrouble with their stumps. Under his influence a closecollaboration soon developed between the limb-fittingsurgeons and the operating surgical staff, and from thiscollaboration was built up that body of amputationsurgery which is now accepted practice. Not only hadthe existing amputation cases to be dealt with, but manyprimary amputations had to be carried out, and on very-unpromising material-for example, on limbs withchronic bone sinuses of many years’ duration or withunrecovered nerve lesions. Those were the days beforethe sulphonamide drugs or the antibiotics, and it speaksvolumes for the high standard of Verrall’s work at

Roehampton that so few cases went wrong.Shortly after the outbreak of the second world war

he gave up hospital work at Roehampton, and as ortho-paedic specialist to the Ministry in London examinedand advised on many thousands of cases both from the1914-18 war and the 1939 war. One of his colleagueswrites : " His reports were always a pleasure to read-’short and to the point, nothing of importance left out,no redundancies, answers given to all questions put tohim, and a sound opinion expressed. It is perhapsunfortunate that Verrall wrote so little of that branch of

surgery on which he could have spoken with so muchknowledge and authority, but those who knew him andworked with him can testify to the readiness which healways showed in passing on to others who went to himfor guidance something from his own wide experience.His work for the Ministry of Pensions continued un-interruptedly until the illness from which he died."

In 1908 Mr. Verrall married Edmee, daughter ofComte Lostie de Kerhor de St. Hippolyte. She surviveshim with their only daughter.

EUSTACE JOHN PARKE OLIVEO.B.E., M.A., M.D. Camb., F.R.C.S.

Dr. E. J. P. Olive, consulting physician to the Warne.ford Hospital, Leamington, died on April 14 at the ageof 88.From St. John’s College, Cambridge, he entered

St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he had a distinguishedstudent career. After qualifying in 1889 he heldhouse-appointments at Barts before he migrated to theGeneral Hospital, Birmingham, where he was house-surgeon to Gilbert Barling. Thence he went toLeamington, where he was appointed to the staff of theWarneford Hospital, and he spent his long life of pro.fessional service in that town. In 1892 he took theF.R.C.S., and two years later his M.D. ,

He was appointed O.B.E. at the end of the first worldwar. A colleague writes : " During both wars Olivewas actively employed, and at the end of hostilities heretired and well deserved the honour which was accordedhim. He was always ready for emergency work, and inhis later years he equipped himself as a very competentanaesthetist. In a full and valuable life he earned thegratitude of many."

AppointmentsCHEATLE, (’. A., M.R.c.S., D.A. : aneesthetist, St. Mary’s group of

hospitals, London.LEVIS, R. D., M.B. Dubl., D.A.: anaesthetic registrar, Frenchay

Hospital, Bristol.REID, R. D., M.B.Lond., 1).T.-,I. & ff. : morbid histologist (con-

sultant), Colchester. -

TEES, J. E., M.R.C.S., D.A. : anaesthetist, North Gloucestershireclinical area.

TURTOX, E. C., M.A.Oxfd, M.B., M.SC. Lond., M.R.C.P., D.P.bi.:consultant physician in psychiatry with special knowledge ofelectro-encephalography, Bristol mental hospitals.

WESTHEAD, PAMELA, M.B. Brist., D.A. : ansesthetio registrar,Frenchay Hospital, Bristol.

WILLIAMSON, D. M., M.B. Aberd.: regional M.o., north-westernregion of Ministry of Labour and National Service.

Appointed Factory Doctors:HEXDERSON, I. R., M.B. Edin. : Braemar district, Aberdeenshire.MACKENSIE, G. K., M.D. Edin. : West Linton district, Peeblesshire.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths

BIRTHSBOYD.—On April 21, at Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand,

the wife of Dr. Edmond Boyd-a daughter.CHALMERS.—On April 24, to Dr. Mary Chalmers (née Evans), wife

of Dr. Kenneth Chalmers-a daughter.READ.-On April 8, the wife of Dr. A. M. Read-a daughter.TAYLOR.—On April 22, in London, the wife of Dr. John Taylor

—a daughter.MARRIAGES

BREBVrrR-SMrLry.-On April 21, at Kingston-on-Thames, HugliBrobner, M.B., to Cecilia May Smiley, M.B.

HARVEY—BROOKS.—On April 24, at Bury, Lancs, Peter WynneHarvey, M.B., to Margaret May Brooks.

DEATHS

BURTON.-On April .26, at Shanghai, Thomas Menzies Burton,M.B. Glasg.

CAIRNIE.—On April 29, at Largs, Ayrshire, Charles Cairnie, M.A.,M.B. Glasg.

EDWARDS.—On April 20, at Northwood, Middlesex, David GlynMason Edwards, M.B. Lond., D.P.H.

EDWARDS.—On April 29, at Harrogate, Francis Henry Edwards,M.B. Lpool, F.R.C.S.R. .

LITTLE.—On April 24, in London, Andrew Hunter Little, M.R.C.S.PORTER.—On April 25, at Eastbourne, William Ernest Porter,

M.D. Edin., D.P.H., aged 88.POWELL.—On April 27, at Sudbury, Suffolk, Rhys Vaughan Powell,

F.R.C.S., aged 60.STEVENSON.—On April 9, in Sheffield, Eliza Moira Kennedy

Stevenson, M.D. Glasg., r.R.F.P.s.VERRALL.—On April 22, in London, Paul Jenner Verrall, B.A,,

M.B. Camb., F.a.r.s. ’