572 THE CANADIAN MEDIcAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL [Nov. 1934 ~~~~[Nov. 1934

Obttuariez Dr. Herbert Melville Little, of Montreal, died intendency of the Montreal Maternity Hospital. There suddenly on October 11th, aged 57 years. Dr. Little his enthusiasm and scientifie training were soon recog- was born in London, Ont., in 1877 and took his Arts nized by the staff and Ladies' Board of Management course at the University of Toronto. He was a and he was largely if not entirely responsible for the graduate in Medicine of McGill University, 1901, and rapid growth and development of that institution. carried out his graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Later he received an appointment to the Medical Hospital, the Montreal Maternity Hospital, the Faculty as an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, and Tiibingen Frauenklinik, at Munich, Vienna and Paris at shortly afterwards (1913) was made an Assistant Gynaco. various times between 1901 and 1908. He subsequently logist to the Montreal General Hospital. A few years obtained the diplomas of member of the American later he was promoted to full professorship at the Uni- Gynaecological Association, F.A.C.S., F.R.C.S. (C.) and versity and was appointed Gynaecologist with the F.C.O.G. (Eng.). Montreal General Hospital. As secretary of the Medical Dr. Little was a valued member of the Editorial Board of the latter institution he showed his great ;9?4rd Qf this Jownal rind of the Association. executive abilitv. He was a member of the Montreal We have received the following A-reciation from Medico-Chirurgical Society, the Canadian Medical Asso- tDrs. Campbell hloward and A. H. Gordon. ciation, and was first vice-president of the American "The sudden death of Dr. Herbert M. Little camne Association of Obstetricians, Gyniecologists and Ab- as a great shock to the medical profession and to the dominal Surgeons. He was also a Foundation Fellow of public at large in Montreal and Canada. Seldom has the British College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists. His there been such an outward and visible expression of social proclivities found vent in the Canadian Club, the the respect and love for one individual as was shown University Club, and the Mount Royal Club, of Montreal. lby his many friends from every walk of life at the Doctors as a rule do not live very long, and the age funeral held on Saturday morning at Christ of fifty-seven would be an average one for medical men service, on this continent, and so Dr. Herbert Little would thus have reached his allotted span. But to those who knew him his life seemed scarcely to have begun. For he had the gift of exuberant youthfulness, which 'age could not wither nor custom stale'. The spirit of the boy never left him. That spirit that could throw a verbal missile at assumed dignity with the accuracy of a snow)ll striking the helmet of a fat policeman, was the same spirit which sent him tilting against tradition in his special field of surgery, and which won him a place among the first in his profession on this continent. A spirit like his made it impossible for him to be a Laodicean; no one ever found him lukewarm; hot or cold he was, and for or against, but never facing both ways. The friends of his youth were the friends of his later years, and friendship with him was 'not a habit, it was a gift'. His friendship crossed all social, academic and racial boundaries; there was no group in which he was not at home, and none was so great in any group that he was safe from a shaft of his scintillating impudence. The keenness of his wit was a by-word among those who knew him, and in their jeua d 'esprit it was his Parthian shot that oftenest ended the contest; yet one always forgot and forgave, because there was no malice nor meanness in his truly fine character. One trait which won him new friends and endeared old ones to him was his un- failing generosity. He was generous with his time, with his means, and with his influence to everyone whom these things might help. These are some of the reasons why Christ Church Herbert Melville Little Cathedral was crowded to the doors when people gatlhered to pay their last tribute to one who had in a Church Cathedral. Doctors, nurses, students and pa- moment been taken away. But another reason was that tients were there, of course, in greatest numbers. the man who had gone had given his life generously, as However, members of the Board of Governors of the he had done of his other gifts, and that from him Judy University, aiid of both large hospitals were largely O 'Grady in her day of trouble had received the self-same represented. The Bench, and the Bar, the Army, the care as had the Colonel 's Lady, and with the care each Club and the Business World bowed their heads in had received a share of the cheer and love of life with respect. What was perhaps even more touching was which he himself was filled. the large number of his patients and their families Like Matthew Arnold he was spared from every walk of life who showed their loss and 'the whispering, crowded room, appreciation of his many past kindnesses, helpful The friends who come and gape and go; advice and skilful care. The ceremonious air of gloom- Shortly after Dr. Little entered the McGill Medical All, which makes death a hideous show! 'I Faculty as a student in 1897 he made a place for him- self in Montreal. He became interested in all forms of student activities, particularly in the McGill Cricket Dr. Nelson Henry Beemer, of Toronto, who was Club, where as 'Tiny Little' he was a universal favourite. for half a century Superintendent of the Ontario Hos- Upon graduation in 1901 he went to the Johns Hopkins pital at Mimico, died recently at his home in Toronto, Hospital and served on the staff of the late John Whit- in his 83rd year. ridge Williams as intern, assistant-resident and resident Born in Waterford, Norfolk County, in 1853, Dr. until he returned to Montreal to take over the super- Beemer was educated at Waterford public school, Nov. OBITUARIES 573 Nov. 1934] OBITUARIES 573

Brantford High School, and the University of Toronto, Berthier, studied at the seminary of Joliette, and took from which he graduated in 1874. his medical degree at Laval University, Quebec, in 1906. For four years after his graduation he practised Dr. Denis practised first at Notre-Dame-des-Bois, then medicine in Wyoming, Lambton County, and in 1878 settled in the northern part of Montreal. He had been he was appointed assistant physician to the Ontario Liberal member for St. Denis since 1921, and had been Hospital at London. extremely active in political life. In 1886 he acted as Medical Superintendent of the Ontario Hospital at Hamilton, later returning to Dr. Jean Paul Grenier. The medical profession of London, where he was Medical Superintendent until Quebec have just lost one of their younger doctors in 1894. Then he was appointed Superintendent of the the person of Dr. Jean Paul Grenier. Dr. Grenier died Mimico Hospital. on September 24th at the early age of 39, and has left During his stay at London, he was examiner in behind him a record of brilliant and promising career. mental diseases at Toronto University, and, for three He was born in the city of Quebec, graduated at Laval years prior to 1928, he lectured in mental diseases to University, Quebec, in 1919, whence he went to New the medical school at Western University. York and Paris for post-graduate courses and returned During the war he was honorary consultant of to practise, in Quebec. He leaves a wife and two the Pension Board of Canada, and in 1924 was presi- daughters. dent of the Ontario Neuro-psychiatric Association. He married Mary A. W. Laing, who predeceased Dr. John Caithness Inmes, of Port Credit, Ont., him seven years ago, and is survived by two children, died at his home on September 28, 1934, in his 85th Arthur A. Beemer and Mrs. Edgar Day Knap, both of year. He was born in Lawrence Kirk, Kincardineshire, Toronto. Scotland, and graduated from Aberdeen College and Edinburgh University. He practised in Derbyshire, Dr. William Alexander Campbell, of Ponoka, Alta., England, for a number of years, coming to Canada in died in Edmonton on September 6, 1934, after an 1904 and starting a practice at Port Credit. He retired illness of eighteen months, the result of cerebral 10 years ago. He was a Mason. Dr. Innes is survived thrombosis. In the death of Dr. Campbell the com- by his widow, Anne Alethea Hoskyns, and two sons, munity loses a family physician of the type which Captains W. C. C. Innes, Port Credit, and J. P. D. Innes, is so fast disappearing; it loses a personal friend of Montreal. the very highest quality; and it loses a man whom it has seen fit to honour politically. Dr. David J. Johnston, of Iroquois, Ont., died on Born on March 31, 1873, of Scotch-Canadian September 10, 1934. He was 73 years of age. He had parentage at Naim, Middlesex Co., Ont., Dr. Campbell practised for forty-seven years at Iroquois, where he was educated in Strathroy public and high schools, was highly respected. He was a graduate of the Uni- the Jameson Avenue Collegiate Institute in Toronto, and versity of Toronto (M.B., 1887). He was a brother of graduated M.D., C.M., in 1899 from Trinity Medical the late Judge Adam Johnston, who died in 1914 at College, Toronto. He practised for short periods of Vankleek Hill; and of the late William Johnston, time in northern Ontario and in Ohio, and arrived in City Solicitor of Toronto. He is survived by his widow, 1903 in the central Alberta town which he had made formerly Miss Emma Larue; a brother, Thomas, on the his home for over thirty years. In 1903 the Ponoka homestead, Williamsburg; two sisters, Mrs. John Hep- district was just being settled, and Dr. Campbell was burn, Victoria, B.C., and Mrs. D. Currie, South Mountain; an exponent of that very high type of practice which and two stepdaughters, Mrs. C. P. Shepherd, Campbell- is required in a pioneer community where hospitals ford, Ont., and Miss Marguerite Harkness, Iroquois. * are far distant and consultations an impossibility. His large frame and robust physique made many hard Dr. Robert Unwin de Lotbini6re Harwood, died trips a possibility, but the long hours and the difficult during the last days of September, 1934, at Calgary, tasks left on him the marks of strain, which finally aged thirty-two, after an illness of some weeks. Dr. asserted themselves in the form of a stroke. Neither Harwood was a native of Pincher Creek, Alta., the son the difficult roads, the frost or blizzards, nor the of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. de Lotbiniere Harwood, and a financial condition of the patient made any difference, cousin of the late Dr. Louis de Lotbiniere Harwood, of for the call was answered, and in the early days that Montreal. frequently meant a trip of fifty miles over the open Dr. Harwood was a graduate of Alberta University prairie. and a Ph.D. of McGill. He had been working for some Quite apart from the numerous friends made years in the Department of Biochemistry of McGill Uni- through his profession, his quiet manner, his genial versity, and with the Department of Medicine of the disposition, and his activity in any good cause won Royal Victoria Hospital. for him the respect of all. He was a Past-master of He is survived by his father and mother; and two the Masonic Order and a Past Grand in the Oddfellows. sisters, Margaret Harwood and Mrs. Herman Emmal- When Alberta was organized as a province Dr. kamp; also by two uncles and an aunt, C. A. Harwood, Campbell was elected as a Liberal to the Legislature, K.C., Dr. A. C. Harwood, and Lady Steel, of Montreal. and continued to represent the Ponoka constituency until -1917, and he maintained an active interest in Dr. John Alexander Macleod, of Kingston, Ont., the welfare of the Liberal Party until his death. In passed away suddenly in Kingston from heart failure his political capacity he, chiefly, was responsible for on August 20, 1934. He graduated from Toronto the choice of Ponoka as the site of the main Pro- University in medicine in 1907. Later he practised vincial Mental Hospital. Dr. Campbell was never his profession in Massey, Algoma, Allenford and married, but leaves to mourn his death, a brother in Orangeville. For the last ten years of his life he was Georgia and two nephews, Donald and John Bell, of in the service of the Ontario Government, being a Ponoka. A. SoMERVILLE member of the medical staff of the Hospitals at Brockville, Mimico and Kingston. Quiet and unassum- Dr. Aquilas Cheval died recently at St. Hilaire, ing, he was respected by all who knew him, and P.Q., at the age of 72. He was a graduate in medicine beloved by his patients. from the University of Montreal in 1886. He was born in Prince Edward Island, the eldest son of the late Rev. Donald Macleod.. His boyhood. Dr. 3. Arthur Denis died on the evening of was spent in Ontario, and he attended- public school October 1st whilst on a fishing trip at Lac Rouge, in his in Priceville, and later the Owen Sound Collegiate, 53rd year. He was born at Saint-Norbert, County of before going to the University. 574 THz CANADIAN .NDFiDic-ALAssoCIATION JOURNAL [Nov. 1934 574^ TK CAAINMDCLASCAINJUNL[o.13 Dr. Frank Porter, of Waubaushene, Ont., died on Council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons September 4, 1934, in his seventy-fifth year. He was of the Province of Alberta, in joint meeting at a graduate of Trinity University (M.D., C.M., 1898). Red Deer, October 4, 1934, express their endorse- His wife, formerly Sarah Elma Clapp had predeceased ment of the general principles involved in the him. proposal that the Provincial Medical Association of Alberta become a branch of the Canadian Dr. Thomas L. Ryan died suddenly on September Medical Association and be known as the Canadian 7th after spending 34 years of practice in Saginaw. He Medical Association, Alberta Branch." was born at Walton, Ont., in 1870, attended St. Jerome's College at Kitchener; then the University of Western The Province of Alberta is nothing if not pro- Ontario, graduating in Medicine in 1899. Immediately gressive in medical matters, and created a precedent after graduation he married Miss Emily McMahon and by inviting the Past-president and the present Presi- located in Saginaw. He is survived by his widow, a son dent of the Alberta Medical Association- to sit in at and a daughter, three sisters, Mrs. M. Phelan, of Blyth, all the meetings of the Council and have all the rights Mrs. M. Cleary, of Seaforth, Mrs. K. Nolan, of Brussels, and privileges as members of the Council except the and two brothers, P. Ryan, of Detroit, and Jno. Ryan, right to vote. This latter of course is not provided of London. for in the Medical Act. Dr. Stephan Stephanson, of The Pas, Man., died At the next session of the Legislature of Alberta in the Winnipeg General Hospital on September 18th. it is contemiplated that a detailed Health Insurance He was born in West Selkirk, Man., in 1886, the son of Act will be passed, making it possible for munici- Stephan Bjornson, a pioneer of that district. He gradu- palities to know what they are voting on, if a plebi- ated in medicine from Manitoba Medical College in 1912 scite be taken. Some people fear that malingering and engaged in private practice until 1919, when he on the part of patients who enjoy hospitalization (or entered into partnership with Dr. Robt. D. Orok, of wreck the scheme or The Pas, and with him was put in charge of all medical poor health) may put too great work in connection with the Hudson's and a responsibility on the attending physician, to dis- Bay Flin charge a hospital patient. The following resolution Flon Railways. When the Flin Flon medical service was was at this organized in 1929 Dr. Stephanson entered it along with passed meeting. three other doctors. He remained in practice at The "That from the inception of the Health In- Pas until 1933, when he went to Flin Flon. He was a surance Scheme, provision be made for the ap- staunch Liberal, was president of the Liberal Associa- pointment of a Board whose duty shall be, in tion at The Pas, and in 1927 was an unsuccessful candi- case of dispute, to decide the amount of medical date for the Manitoba Legislature. On July 23rd of or hospital treatment the patient in question is this year he was stricken with acute appendicitis and entitled to receive."y Dr. B. J. Brandson, of Winnipeg, went by air to Flin G. E. LEARMONTH Flon in consultation. Two weeks later Dr. Stephanson was brought by plane to the Winnipeg General Hospital. He was married in 1915 to Miss Anna Emery and is Manitoba survived by his widow and two sons, Norman and The Medical Superintendent and members of the Arnold. Sanatorium Board of Manitoba attended a compli- mentary luncheon to Dr. R. E. Wodehouse, Deputy Dr. Henri Trudel died on September 16th at Saint- Minister of Health, on September 15th at the Central Gregoire at the age of 80, after having practised for Tuberculosis Clinic, Winnipeg. over half a century in that town. He was born at Saint-Genevieve de Batiscan, and graduated in medi- Dr. Ross Mitchell addressed the Grand Forks cine from Laval University, Quebec, in 1878. Medical Society at Grafton, N.D., on September 19th on the subject "The late toxemias of pregnancy". Mr. Hugh N. Wolfenden, Mr. C. C. Ferguson, Managing Director of the Great West Life Assurance 1Rews 3temz Company, and Mr. M. D. Grant, Associate Manager of-the Sovereign Life Insurance Co., addressed a Alberta gathering of Winnipeg medical men at a luncheon in A special meeting of the Council of the College the Fort Garry Hotel on September 24th on "The of Physicians and Surgeons and the members of the relations of the medical and actuarial professions to out-going and in-coming Executive Committees of the health insurance". Ross MITCHELL Alberta Medical Association was held in Red Deer, October 4, 1934. One object of the meeting was to New Brunswick strengthen organized medicine in Canada, nationally and provincially, in order that the public and the The Provincial Department of Health have begun profession might both be benefited. The idea was that their annual physical examination and x-ray examina- provincial associations would take on the name of tion of chests in the normal schools and universities the National Association and be branches of it; that of the province. They have just completed the ex- a basic constitution be drawn up by the Canadian amination of the pupils in the normal school in MIedical Association on which all the provinces could Fredericton, and will subsequently examine those in agree; and that they also furnish a skeleton constitu- the University of New Brunswick, Mount Allison, and tion for the provincial branches. Provision would be St. Joseph's Universities. This routine physical and made in the skeleton constitution for meeting the x-ray examination of the chests of these pupils began local provincial needs, thus basically, all the provinces in 1927-28, with the idea of case finding. Lately, a would be united, but individually they would not be five-year follow-up of potential cases of tuberculosis hampered in dealing with local matters. After some has been undertaken in the hope of arriving at the discussion the general principle was adopted by the average incidence of this disease in this particular following resolution. age-group of supposedly healthy persons. The total enrolment in the various institutions averages 800. "That the members of the out-going and in- The work is done through the New Brunswick Depart- coming Executive Committees of the Alberta ment of Health by the tuberculosis diagnostic service Medical Association and the members of the and health officers.