RETIREMENT OF DR. TELFORD

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24124, 7 December 1943, Page 6

RETIREMENT OF DR. TELFORD

DISTRICT HEALTH OFFICER FOR 24 YEARS Dr T. Fletcher. Telford, Medical Officer of Health for the district of Canterbury and Westland, will retire from the department at the end January, He has held his present position for nearly 24 years and is one of the best-known departmental health officers in the Dominion. . . ...... Dr. Telford is an American by birth; but he was educated in England mid Ireland and took his B.A. and M-D. degrees at Dublin University, where he also gained a Diploma of State Medicine and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health. As a civil surgeon attached to the Royal Army Medical Corps he served in the South African War, and subsequently he practised at Darlington, Cape Colony. „ , He was appointed medical superintendent of the Ross Hospital on the West Coast in 1906, and later he resumed private practice at Greymouth and Blackball. In 1920 he entered the Department of Health as health officer at Christchurch. Dr. Telford has sensed on a great many public and semi-public bodies in Christchurch, including the Canterbury branch of the Town Planning Institute of New Zealand. A keen horticulturist, he is an official of the Canterbury Horticultural Society, and was one of the founders of the New Zealand Lily Society. ,