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In addition to the retirement of my eminent predecessor, Dr. Stanley King, the year witnessed the
departure after long and distinguished careers in local government of two other principal officers of the
department, namely Mr. F. L. Clark, Chief Administrative Officer, and Mr. W. C. Bartlett, Chief Public
Health Inspector.
Details of their careers as reported to the appropriate Committees of the Council on their retirement are
given below.
STANLEY KING, M.D., D.P.H.
Dr. King qualified in 1928 with the M.R.C.S. (England) and
L.R.C.P. (London), and went on to gain his M.B., B.S.
(London), M.R.C.P. (London), M.D. (London) and D.P.H.
(England).
In 1933, after holding a number of hospital appointments,
Dr. King was appointed Assistant Tuberculosis Officer to the
Metropolitan Borough of Stepney. A year later he became
Deputy Medical Officer of Health and Tuberculosis Officer to
the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea, and in 1939 he was
appointed Medical Officer of Health to the Metropolitan
Borough of Stoke Newington.
In 1948 Dr. King was appointed as Divisional Medical
Officer for L.C.C. Division 4; this Division embraced Hackney,
Shoreditch and Stoke Newington, and he was responsible for
organising, for the Division, the service under the National
Health Service Act 1946. In addition, as Divisional Officer, he
undertook duties as Medical Officer of Health for Stoke
Newington.
In 1964 Dr. King was appointed as Medical Officer of
Health for the London Borough of Islington to organise the
service for the then new Health Department, and in 1969 he
became the Borough's first Director of Public Health and
Medical Officer of Health.
Since 1946 he has regularly lectured on Public Health subjects to doctors taking the D.P.H. course at the
Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene, and for nine years he was an examiner for the Royal College
of Physicians and Royal College of Surgeons for the Diploma in Public Health.
Dr. King, who is a past Chairman of the Metropolitan Branch of the Society of Medical Officers of
Health, has served since 1948 as a member of the Management Committees of Hackney, Long Grove and
New Southgate Hospitals; at the present time he is a member of the North London group of hospitals, being
Vice-Chairman of the Planning and General Purposes Committee and Chairman of a Sub-Committee on
Community Services.
Since 1965 Dr. King has been Chairman of the Association of Inner London Borough Medical Officers of
Health, and he is currently Chairman of the Inner London Local Obstetric Committee of the Inner London
Executive Council.
Dr. King is a Member of the Council of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene and Chairman
of its Education Committee.
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