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British physician
ColonelH. D. ChalkeOBE CStJ TD
Personal details
BornHerbert Davis Chalke
15 June 1897
Died8 October 1979(1979-10-08) (aged 82)
NationalityBritish
OccupationPhysician

Herbert Davis Chalke (15 June 1897 – 8 October 1979) was a British physician known for his work in the fields of social medicine and medical history. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the medical journal Alcohol and Alcoholism.

Biography

Chalke was educated at Porth County School, the University of Wales, Cambridge University, and St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He later served in the Royal Air Force during the latter part of World War I and in the Royal Army Medical Corps throughout World War II, retiring as a colonel. In the 1930s, the King Edward VII Welsh National Memorial Association appointed him to study tuberculosis mortality in Wales. He played a major role in a campaign to control a typhus epidemic in Naples, Italy during the 1940s, for which he received the Typhus Commission Medal from the United States government.

He is survived by his son David John Chalke, a social analyst in Australia.

References

  1. "A Hard Winter". Alcohol and Alcoholism. 1979. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.alcalc.a044185.
  2. "C V Gledhill". British Medical Journal. 2 (6202): 1444. 1 December 1979. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.6202.1444. PMC 1597124. PMID 391350.
  3. "Second Paper, by F. J. ALBAN, C.B.E., F.C.I.S., Secretary and Comptroller, King Edward VII Welsh National Memorial Association". The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health. 60 (3): 94–101. 1 January 1939. doi:10.1177/146642403906000303. S2CID 221046275.
  4. Harrison, Mark (2004). Medicine and Victory: British Military Medicine in the Second World War. OUP Oxford. p. 137. ISBN 9780199268597.

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