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DR. WILLIAM COLLINGRIDGE, who died on April 29 at seventy-three years of age, went up to Cambridge as a young man, and while there his medical studies were interrupted by the circumstance that he volunteered surgical services to the Serbian Forces during the Turko-Serbian War. On his return to England he resumed his studies at the University and graduated in medicine. After two years of private practice he was appointed (1880) Medical Officer of Health of the Port of London, and during his twenty years' tenure of this post he contributed materially to the advances made in port sanitary work. The period was an eventful one; for two continental epidemics of cholera seriously threatened Great Britain, and the measures he devised and conducted were of great assistance in securing the immunity from infection which London, and the country generally, enjoyed. In no small measure are we indebted to Collingridge for the comparative composure with which we should face such risks at the present day.
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Dr. W. Collingridge. Nature 119, 789 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119789a0
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