THOMAS PULLAR, MB, Ch. B., DPH

JUNE 20, 1959 OBITUARY BRmsH 1593
MFDICAL JOURNAL
his funeral at Felinfoel church paid tribute to the affection
which everyone held for him. He was in single-handed
practice until 1952, when he decided to join forces with a
three-partner practice. We were a very happy quartet. He
was essentially a family man, and our thoughts and
sympathies go out to his widow, daughter, and young son.
We also extend our condolences to his sister, Mrs. D.
Haddon-Jones. I shall miss a loyal, cheerful, and helpful
colleague and friend.
H. S. CARTER, M.D., D.P.H.
Dr. Hartley S. Carter, city bacteriologist in the health
and welfare department of Glasgow Corporation for the
past 11 years, died in hospital on May 14 after a few
days' illness. He was 71 years of age.
Hartley Sidney Carter was born in Leeds on November 7,
1887, the son of George Henry Carter, a building contractor.
For several years before graduation he was on the staff
of the pathological and bacteriological department of the
University of Leeds. After graduating M.B., Ch.B., with
first-class honours, in 1917, he proceeded to the M.D. four
years later, gaining distinction. He obtained the D.P.H., with
special commendation, at the University of Leeds in 1931.
After graduation he held the appointments of house-surgeon
at the Leeds Hospital for Women and Children and resident
medical officer at Leeds Public Dispensary. During the first
world war he served for two years as a captain in the
R.A.M.C., being for a year in charge of the pathological
and bacteriological laboratory of the 2nd Northern General
Hospital with 1,000 beds. After a short period in general
practice he held posts with the Ministry of Pensions in Leeds,
first as senior medical officer at Beckett Park Hospital and
subsequently as senior medical officer and deputy medical
superintendent at Chapel Allerton Hospital, where, in
addition to having charge of medical beds, he was in charge
of the pathological and bacteriological laboratory.
Dr. Carter joined the Glasgow public health laboratory as
senior assistant bacteriologist in 1932, subsequently becoming
deputy city bacteriologist before his appointment in 1948 to
the post of city bacteriologist, which he held until he died.
Early in his medical career he began to take an interest in
pathology and bacteriology, which soon became his life work.
He concentrated particularly on the epidemiological aspects
of infectious disease. In Glasgow he made a special
investigation of diphtheria and had contributed largely to
the knowledge of its local trends and epidemiology. Having
a wide experience of his subject, he maintained and greatly
improved the standard of bacteriological work in the
Glasgow public health laboratory. He was regularly
consulted not only by the medical staff of the department
but also by hospitals and by general practitioners.
Dr. Carter was widely read and kept himself abreast of
most aspects of medicine. He wrote extensively on medical
references in classical literature, contributions which were
outstanding for their content and for their clear and concise
phraseology. A charming and helpful colleague, he had a
youthful outlook unusual in a man of his age. His death
has been keenly felt by his staff and by the members of the
department. He leaves a widow to whom we extend our
warmest sympathy.-W. A. H.
W. D. COGHILL, M.B., Ch.B.
Dr. W. D. Coghill, who was a leading figure in the
medical life of Coventry for many years, died suddenly
on May 16. He was 74 years of age.
William David Coghill was born at Edinburgh on
December 19, 1884, and studied medicine at Edinburgh
University, where he graduated M.B., Ch.B. in 1907.
After graduation he held resident appointments at the
Carmarthen Infirmary, the Leicester Poor Law Infirmary,
and the New Cross Infirmary, Wolverhampton, before
taking up the appointment in 1912 of medical superintendent
of Gulson Hospital, Coventry. At this hospital he did
valuable service during the first world war, adding to his
arduous duties the solution of the many difficult and
dangerous industrial medical problems of that time,
particularly at the important Coventry factory of White and
Poppe. In 1918 he was invited to succeed the late Mr.
S. A. Ballantyne in his practice in Coventry, and there he
remained in constant service to his patients, even after his
retirement in October, 1958. During the second world war
he was appointed medical officer in charge of a first-aid post,
a task which carried many serious responsibilities during
the bombing attacks on Coventry.
J. S. writes: Much of Dr. W. D. Coghill's long
professional career was devoted to an active association with
medical affairs. He was a former chairman of the Coventry
Division of the British Medical Association. From the
date of inception of the National Health Service he served
as chairman of the local medical committee and vicechairman
of the executive council. Previously he had
been for many years a member of the Coventry Insurance
Committee and chairman of the local medical and panel
committee. In the many important duties in these and
other medical committees his wise counsel proved
invaluable. His sympathy and understanding of the varied
problems affecting the younger members of the medical
profession will be remembered by many with gratitude. In
demeanour always calm and wise, he had an obvious
integrity which endeared him to professional colleagues,
patients, and all who knew him. Always a staunch
supporter of Coventry City football club, he was for over
30 years its medical officer. Golf also had been one of his
many interests, and he was until recent years a member of
Coventry Hearsall club.
He married in 1912 Florence Winwood, who survives him,
together with a son, Dr. Peter Coghill, and a daughter, Dr.
Margaret Rudd.
J. R. ANDERSON, M.B., Ch.B.
Dr. J. R. Anderson, who was in general practice at
Rotherham, Yorkshire, for many years, died on May 21
at his home at Copdeck, Suffolk, where he had been
living in retirement. He was 83 years of age.
James Robertson Anderson was born in Aberdeenshire
on October 5, 1875, a son of the manse, but his boyhood
was spent at Sandwick, Orkney, where his father was
minister. There he learned to fish for trout in the Loch of
Stennes and shoot grouse on the Harray Moors. Until
five years ago, when his health began to fail, he returned
each August, except during the war years, to the scenes and
sports of his boyhood. He was educated at Fochabers
Academy and at Edinburgh University, where he graduated
in 1898. He spent a year in postgraduate study as a
demonstrator of anatomy and physiology in the university
and then entered general practice as an assistant in
Edinburgh and later in Derbyshire. He was house-surgeon
at the Rotherham Hospital from 1900 to 1902, and was
appointed honorary surgeon in 1907. He retired on
December 31, 1935. From 1916 to 1919 he served in the
R.A.M.C. as a surgeon in hospitals in Malta and France.
He was mentioned in dispatches, and for his services to the
French received the Mddaille d'Honneur en Argent. He
finished his Army career as commanding officer of the 58th
Scottish General Hospital, with the rank of major. During
the second world war he was deputy chairman of a
recruiting board in Ipswich; later, and up to two years ago,
he held a similar position under the Ministry of Pensions
and National Insurance.
He was in general practice in Rotherham for over 30
years, but even so he did a great deal of first-class surgical
work at the hospital. He had a flair, almost a clinical
instinct, for making a correct diagnosis, and was tireless in
his work for the comfort and well-being of his patients. His
surgical judgment was such that he knew his own