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Name: PROCTER, Robert Arthur Welsford MC (Dr.)
Birth Date: 23 June 1891 Stone, Staffordshire, bapt. 10 July
Death Date: 1 Sep 1965 Bradford
First Date: 1921
Profession: Senior Medical Officer, Medical Dept., Kenya in 1939, appointed 1933. Originally Prob. Medical Officer 1921.
Area: Mombasa, 1930 Kisumu
Married: In Heaton, W. Yorkshire 20 Apr 1924 Kathleen Mary Morley b. 11 Apr 1896 Bradford, d. 3 Feb 1968 Ilkley, Yorks.
Children: Gwilym Denzil (4.2.1021)
Book Reference: Staff 39, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Mombasa, Hut, Red 22, Harmony, Dominion, Gazette
War Service: RAMC
School: MA, BCH (Cantab) MRCS (Eng) LRCP (Lond) DPH (Cantab) DTM&H (Lond)
General Information:
Red 22 - Native Civil Hospital, Mombasa
Member of Lodge Harmony - Joined 2/10/33
Dominion - Medical Officer - 1930
Gazette 27/7/1921 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Medical Officer - 18/7/1921
KAD 1922 - Medical Officer, Mombasa. Mombasa - President, Mombasa Sports Club in 1940
Nat Probate Calendar
R.A.W. Procter, Random Reminiscences, Bodleian Library Mss.Afr.s.702 Went to Kenya as medical officer in charge of the native hospital in Mombasa. 200 beds and the SMO was Dr NP Jewell. Feb 1923 went to Moyale as MO of the 5th KAR. The natives around Wajir had a high resistance to anthrax. Then he was sent to Fort Hall where one MO and one Indian sub-assistant surgeon were expected to deal with an area containing nearly one million Africans. Life was enlivened by the old exhumation and the occasional postmortem performed under a thorn tree in cases of sudden death, usually murder. There were biennial plague epidemics after the rains. Was horrified at the mutilation caused by female circumcision. He became SMO, Coast Province, in charge of the European Hospital in Mombasa.