Annual general meeting of Fellows : Thursday, July 3, 1919.

  • Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain). Meeting (1919)
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[1919?]
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Credit: Annual general meeting of Fellows : Thursday, July 3, 1919. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. 29. Zhe 1Ro\>al Society of flftebictne OFFICIAL BULLETIN ■ -y® GENERAL MEETING OE FELLOWS. November 13, 1918. At a General Meeting of the Fellows held at the Society’s house, 1, Wimpole Street, on Wednesday, November 13, 1918, at 4.30 p.m. Present : Sir Humphry Rolleston (President) in the Chair, Mr. MacAlister, Secretary, thirty-eight Fellows, and thirty-two visitors. The PRESIDENT announced that this meeting had been called for the purpose of presenting to Sir Alfred Keogh, G.C.B. (late Director-General, Army Medical Service), the Diploma of Honorary Fellowship conferred upon him last Session. Addressing Sir Alfred, he said:— Ladies and Gentlemen,—It is particularly appropriate that within a few days of the surrender of Germany we should do honour to Sir Alfred Keogh, who worked such wonders in preserving the health of our victorious troops and bore the burden and heat of the day in organizing the R.A.M.C. and expanding it to more than sevenfold its strength. To the Fellows of the Society who have elected him an Honorary Fellow Sir Alfred Keogh requires no introduction ; his outstanding achievements as an administrator and organizer in the greatest war of the world have rightly earned him lasting fame. Born in the Sister Isle, he rigidly conforms to the rule that an Irishman when clever or able is so in a superlative degree. He won his spurs as an administrator in the Boer War, where he fell a victim to typhoid fever, a disease practically eliminated from the British troops in the late war. Then, at the early age of 46, rapidly promoted to the post of Medical Director- General (1904-10), he introduced many reforms, among which the R.A.M.C. College—adorned not as (you will agree) it should have been with his own statue, but with that of his great predecessor, Sir James McGrigor, Medical 3,500-12-6-20