MISCELLANEOUS x1117
ARMY MEDICAL SCHOOL PARKES MEMORIAL MEDAL, by J.S. & A.B. Wyon, 51mm, bronze, the obverse featuring the head facing right, ‘Edmund Alexander Parkes, B.1819 - D.1876’; the reverse featuring a laurel wreath with ‘Army Medical School, Hygiene; Parkes Memorial Medal’ inscribed round and inside (Captain D. MacD. Fraser, I.M.S. April 1932.) in damaged case of issue; NORTH PERSIAN FORCES MEMORIAL MEDAL, 58mm, silver, the reverse inscribed ‘Presented by the Medical Officers N.P.F. 1921 awarded for the Best Contribution to Tropical Medicine during the Year 1924 to Captain William Hood Dye, R.A.M. Corps’, in Royal Mint case of issue, extremely fine (2)
£60-80
Donald MacDonald Fraser was born on 4 November 1899 and trained as a doctor and surgeon in Glasgow. He was commissioned into the Indian Medical Service on 28 January 1925, and was advanced Captain on 25 February 1927. He served as Agency Surgeon in South Waziristan and as Medical Officer with the South Waziristan Scouts. He retired with the rank of Brigadier.
The Parkes Memorial Medal for Hygiene was named after Dr Edmund Alexander Parkes, the first Professor of Hygiene at the Army Medical School.
William Hood Dye was born on 28 June 1889 and served during the Great War as a Dental Surgeon, being advanced Captain on 7 February 1917. He relinquished his commission on 16 April 1925.
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MAIDSTONE TYPHOID MEDAL 1897, silver, ‘Sara Andrew’, with integral top riband bar, good very fine
£200-240
A major epidemic of Typhoid Fever broke out in Maidstone, Kent during late August 1897. By 9 September, 117 cases had been reported, rising to 774 by the end of the month and by 9 October the number had risen to 1,200, with 42 deaths. The cause was never fully identified but the reservoir at Barming, the spring at Tutsham, and various pumping stations were all found to be contaminated - all this compounded by the poor sewage system then in operation at Maidstone. In the highly charged atmosphere of the times, irresponsibly defecating hop-pickers also were blamed for the outbreak! The Town Council also came in for some criticism in having, as an economy measure, reduced the number of times a year the water purity was tested. In response to the outbreak, suspect water supplies were cut and Barming Reservoir was chlorinated. The Town Council issued handbills to the townspeople recommending the boiling of all drinking water and a free laundry was opened for the washing of all clothes and bedding from infected households; these same houses were then thoroughly disinfected. Emergency hospitals were opened, and such was the need, that doctors and nurses from outside the area were brought in to tend to the sick and dying. A subscription to help the poorer townsfolk was also opened. By rigourous methods the epidemic was brought under control, and by the end of December it was largely over; the total number of reported cases being 1,847, with 132 deaths.
Medals were awarded to the nursing staff who served in the town during the epidemic. Many were presented by the Mayor of Maidstone at a special ceremony held at the Museum and Technical School on Wednesday 8 December 1897; an account of the presentation being given in the South Eastern Gazette of 14 December 1897. Some 700 people attended the presentation, including members of the Town Council, Magistrates, Clergy and other people of note. The Mayor of Maidstone (Councillor J. Barker) gave a speech before the presentation, paraphrased by the newspaper, ‘... While they must be filled with regret for those who had been taken away ... it was a matter of congratulation to know that the epidemic which overtook them three months ago, had been stamped out thanks to the efforts of their Medical Officer, the medical men of the town, and ... through the sturdy and gallant conduct of every inhabitant of Maidstone ... and, in addition to the help received from the residents in the town and neighbourhood, they had an army of trained nurses to assist them. ... He now wished on the part of every inhabitant of the borough of Maidstone, ... to thank the nurses who had assisted them during their great trouble ... and he was going to ask them to accept a small medal as a token of esteem for the work they had done ...’
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Nursing Badges awarded to Miss Lena Gateney GENERAL NURSING COUNCIL MEMBER’S BADGE, silver (hallmarks for Birmingham 1933) and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘L. Gateney S.R.N. 72388 16-3-34’, pin-back suspension; CITYGENERALHOSPITAL, SHEFFIELD BADGE, bronze, the reverse privately engraved ‘City General Hosp. Lena Gateney Oct. 1933.’, pin-back suspension, enamel damage to first, therefore nearly very fine
Nursing Badges awarded to Miss Kathleen M. Bradley GENERAL NURSING COUNCIL MEMBER’S BADGE, silvered and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘K. M. Bradley S.R.N. 204631 29.7.53’, pin-back suspension; HARROGATE AND DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL BADGE, silver (hallmarks for Birmingham) and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘Kathleen Mary Bradley 26.3.50 25.3.53’, pin-back suspension, good very fine (4)
£80-120
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