Canynge Hall 1933-1969

ust over thirty-five years ago the newly formed Univer-Department of Preventive Medicine was opened at anynge Hall, a former hotel (Plate V), by the then 'hister of Health, Sir Hilton Young. He described the ?Ccasion as the celebration of a marriage of the City Bristol with the fair nymph of knowledge, and Dr. anley Badock, in proposing the vote of thanks, hoped at it would be a lasting and happy union. BV to-day's standards, the partners were strangely assorted?the Pathological Service provided by the niversity and the City's Chemical and Bacteriological oratories which were transferred from 36 Queen quare. Yet at that time, it was a logical step. Thera-P^utic medicine had few specific remedies to offer; Qf0rrirnunicable diseases were still a formidable cause Mortality and morbidity and the newly developing science of bacteriology was pointing the way to their revention. Indeed, in the early 1930's the profession the public had a healthier respect for preventive easures than in these days of ready access to a wide n9e of effective therapeutic agents. At that time there s also a need to provide the City's rapidly develop-9 hospitals?at Southmead, Ham Green and Frenchay ~~""W|th a bacteriological and pathological service. Pre-t|ve medicine was also being accorded more impor-Ce in the medical undergraduate curriculum, p ,|e city Laboratories, under the direction of the of r!'C Analyst> haci hitherto dealt with the examination Wat swabs ancl sputa; and samples of milk, food and drugs, rag flock, fertiliser and feeding be S" ~r^1e University Department of Pathology had fee^0 resPonsible for the examination of specimens of es and urine from suspected cases of typhoid, a^P^d and dysentery; blood and lochia, etc. from ly Pected cases of puerperal sepsis, syphilis and ani ?ld'-and oerebro-spinal fluids. They also carried out Toe?19' inoculation tests for diphtheria and tuberculosis.