PHYSICIAN'S DEATH

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13770, 13 October 1942, Page 4

PHYSICIAN'S DEATH

DR. J. D. C. DUNCAN

The death has ocurred of Dr. J. D. Campebll Duncan, Government balneologist at Rotorua for the past 23 years. He died unexpectedly on Saturday morning at Mount Maunganui, where he usually spent the weekend. Born in Christchurch in 1881, Dr. Duncan took his degrees of M. 8., Ch.B., at Edinburgh University, and was resident medical officer at Hammer Springs in the years immediately prior to the Great War. He served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Egypt, France and England, and was wounded on the Somme in 1916. Prior to his return to New Zealand, he studied the latest methods in balneology at Bath. In 1919 he was appointed to succeed Dr. A. S. Herbert as Government balneologist at Rotorua, and he gained a high reputation in the practice of physio-therapeutics. Painting and writing were recreations in which Dr Duncan also secured wide recognition. He was a past president of the Auckland Society of Arts, being awarded the Bledisloe medal for the best landscape exhibited in 1934. He was the winner in the following year of the British Drama League's prize for the best three-act play, and he wrote numerous articles and short stories for New Zealand publications. His wife died two years ago, and he is survived by a daughter, Mrs J. A. Gresham, of Tauranga, and two sons.