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the community whose growth he had watched and whose interest
he had served in more than one post with quiet and undemonstrative
efficiency.
My own association with Dr. Ball began informally during the
first years of the late war and officially in 1942, when I was appointed
Deputy Medical Officer of Health.for the District. During
this comparatively short, and for me very happy, association I
learned the reason for the high esteem in which he was held. It
lay in his own sincerity and the complete absence of all selfish aims
in any course which he pursued. This selflessness, and a courtesy of
manner rare in the affairs of man at the present time, were characteristic
and completely unaffected, springing as they did from that
inherent and indefinable quality which distinguishes the "natural
gentleman" of whatever station in life.
It only remains for me to express my own personal good
wishes and those of every member of the Health Department who
was associated with him, for Dr. Ball's future happiness, and to
assure him that for those of us who worked with him the Council's
motto, "A GOOD NAME ENDURETH," is more than a phrase.
May both he and Mrs. Ball long enjoy their leisure in the years
ahead.
PATRICK X. O'DWYER, M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O., D.P.H.,
Acting Medical Officer of Health.