R. C. Wofinden
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چکیده
Robert Cavill Wofinden was born in the West Riding village of Greasbro on 25th January 1914. From Rotherham Grammar School he won a county major scholarship to St. Mary's Hospital, where his prizewinning notoriety was the despair of his peers. He was a'so a keen sportsman: a cricketer and golfer of parts, and soccer captain of St. Mary's. He graduated with honours as Alexander Fleming Prizewinner in 1937, and in 1938 he married Eileen Frances Rachel Sinnamon. 'n 1939 he proceeded to his Doctorate and took his Diploma in Public Health with honours at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He added the Diploma in Public Administration to his armoury in 1945, and was successfully elected Member and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1967 and 1972, in which year he also became a Founder Fellow ?f the Faculty of Community Medicine, with whose early origin he was closely concerned. In 1939 he took up his first public health appointment in Rotherham, and began his classic field work ?n problem families. In 1946 he won the Joseph Rogers Prize of the Society of Apothecaries for an essay on Health Services in England, and moved to Bradford as Deputy Medical Officer of Health. A year later he became deputy to Robert Hughes Parry in Bristol, where he was to devote the remaining 27 years of his professional life, succeeding Dr. Parry as Medical Officer of Health of the City and County and
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Modern Trends in Public Health *An abridged version of an address to the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society given on Wednesday 14th March, 1956.
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