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Name: McCULLOCH, James M. (Dr.)

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Birth Date: 31.8.1870 Balmain, New South Wales

Death Date: 14 Oct 1905 London

Nationality: British

First Date: 1897

Profession: Uganda Railway

Area: Voi, Mazeras, Uganda

Book Reference: EAS, North, EA Diary 1903, Gazette

General Information:

North - Railhead, Taru Camp April 1897; Voi Feb 1899; arr. Nairobi 5/6/1899; Chief Med. Officer, Uganda Railway; Mazeras going to coast on leave 14/7/1899; arr. Mombasa from Zanzibar 1/12/1899; Railhead May, Jun 1900; given 3 months' notice and due to leave Railway service end Nov 1901; transferred from Railway to UP during Sleeping Sickness epidemic in Uganda Feb 1903
EA Diary has J. McCulloch - Assistant Medical Officer, Uganda Railway
Gazette - 17/12/1902 - Plague compensation after bubonic plague in March 1902 - Dr J. McCullock - Rs 40
North - UK Appt as Asst. Medical Officer 3/8/1897; 'Rather boorish' (Patterson, RH); 'Doctors Waters, McCullough and Macpherson - the trio of drunken garrulous doctors' (F.J. Jackson, FO 2)
Mills Railway - Sieve-King's salary increments caused misgiving and in April Whitehouse wrote: "At the time the first increment was given to Dr Sieve-King, I pointed out that there was no other course to follow between giving an increment or termination of service. On reviewing the numerous unsatisfactory officers who have been sent out for this department, it appears to me quite hopeless to expect any improvement if Dr Sieve-King's services were dispensed with." Pending Gracey's comments on the medical services, Whitehouse deferred action on a request from Sieve-King for another increment.
Neither Sieve-King nor Dr J. McCulloch at railhead was in any hurry to defend himself. The latter took nearly two months to reply and Sieve-King did not forward the report with his own comments for another seven weeks so the defences did not reach the Committee until September. McCulloch agreed there had been 225 men in hospital at railhead at the time of Gracey's inspection but said they were in 22 tents, the ground being quite dry apart from some wetting round the edges after 3 days' continuous rain. He himself had been "attending the wife of the Protectorate doctor at Naivasha at her approaching confinement." Sieve-King regretted his absence from the country on leave, complained about the shortage of reliable subordinate staff, pointed out that only 3 hospitals out of 10 were inspected and objected to "assistant surgeons with thorough medical educations who were properly qualified men" being referred to as hospital assistants. The Committee did not discuss the matter further.
The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa. North - Uganda Railway - Medical Officer
 

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