| Description Of Item | Form completed by doctors at the request of the SMSEC, which was set up by the Scottish Committee of the British Medical Association in order to manage shortages of doctors in wartime.
This form contains the following information:
Not Commissioned (Registration)
Qualifications: MD (Edin)
Address: Glencoila, Bellahouston
City/Town: Glasgow
Present work: Retired on pension (age limit) - formerly Inspector of Asylums, Cape Colony and medical superintendent, Valkenberg Asylum
Age in 1916: 61
Additional information: Comment next to Group C: part time work, for which I am fit and competent in the district where my home is. Comment at end: I could not undertake general practice - I am not a surgeon. I have offered my part time services to the Hawkhead Asylum and also the Red Cross Hospital in this neighbourhood and my application has been noted but no call has yet been received by me. |