Brian Arthur Smith

bmj;378/jul19_1/o1734/FAF1faBrian Arthur Smith was born in Thornton Heath in 1929 and attended what was then the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1946, aged 17. Most of his classmates had just come back from fighting in the second world war, and he was one of the youngest in his year. He enjoyed the Middlesex, where one of his consultants had been Joseph Lister’s house officer. It was here that he met Patricia, a nurse, to whom he would be very happily married for 68 years.Brian took up a house job in Kettering, where he recalled sharpening used syringe needles on a small grinding wheel on the ward and sterilising them for future use. After his house jobs and national service in Worcester, Brian entered public health. He obtained his Diploma in Public Health in Bristol and was medical officer of health for Ipswich from 1967 to 1972. In this role his…
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