Lamb, Dr Philip William (1893-1981)

Monograph written by Dr Philip Lamb's daughter Jane Lamb, covering his life and career in medicine especially in London's East End among the Chinese Community. The information is taken by Jane Lamb from a paper she presented at the Women's Library, London Metropolitan University to SUMEHR (Support Unit for Minority Ethnic Research), 12 March 2009.

2009

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Presented to the library at Wellcome Collection by Jane Lamb, September 2009.

Dr Philip William Lamb was born in Hong Kong in 1893 and studied at Edinburgh University where he obtained the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 1915. Between 1920 and 1968 he worked amongst the Chinese population of the East End of London.