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BY the retirement of Sir George Buchanan on February 18 from his post as senior medical officer of the Ministry of Health, an association with the public health of Great Britain of nearly forty years is terminated, for Sir George was appointed a medical inspector of the old Local Government Board in 1895. During this period he has accomplished much valuable work over the whole range of public health. In early days he dealt with infectious disease out-breaks questions of water supply and sewage disposal, Housing problems andslum clearance. During the five years 1906–11, he acted as chief inspector of foods, arid afterwards was the chief assistant medical officer of the Local Government Board, becoming oil the formation of the Ministry of Health its senior rnedical officer. On the outbreak of War in 1914, Sir George was immediately attached to the Army Sanitary Committee and served on the eastern fronts at Gallipoli and in Macedonia and Mesopotamia, though little mention of the services he rendered there will be found in official records. With the cessation of hostilities commenced his association with the League of Nations. He had been a member of the Health Committee of the League from its foundation, and how became its vice-president, and he also became British representative of the Office International d'Hygiene Publique. In 1919 he was a member of the Poland Typhus Commission instituted by the League of Bed Cross Societies, was appointed president of the League of Nations Cancer Commission, and was a member of the League's mission for the public health reorganisation of Greece. In 1926, Sir Gorg was appointed chief British delegate to the International Sanitaiy Conference. During the last twelve years He Has assisteol at numerous Government and official investigations. This bare outline of Sir George Buchanan's activities during his official career suffices to show that for has played a part for which he has earned his country's
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Sir George Buchanan, C.B. Nature 133, 242 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133242a0
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