OBITUARY Dr Muriel Bell

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33527, 7 May 1974, Page 6

OBITUARY Dr Muriel Bell

1 (N.Z. Press Association) DUNEDIN. May 5. Dr Muriel Emma Bell, 'a noted nutritionist, has died at her home in Dunedin, aged 76. Dr Bell was widely known for her work in nutrition and nutrional research and when she retired in 1964 she was director of the Medical Research Council’s nutrition research unit in Dunedin. She worked with the unit for 26 years. In 1929 Dr Bel! was grantled the William Gibson research scholarship by the Royal Society of Medicine in (London. For three years Dr

’Bell did research in New i Zealand and London. Dr Bell served as a mem- • |ber of the Board of Health i'| from 1937, representing the J interests of women and, H children, and was a member j [of the fluoridation sub-cbm-i mittee from 1957 on. She' i was a member of the Medi-| cal Research Council from 1937 until 1950, and a mem1 ber of the dental research ; committee and chairman of I the nutrition committee , from 1948. Dr Bell married Mr James-; t Saunders in the 1930 s and after his death married Mr, ■ Alfred Earnest Hefford, an ■ inspector of fisheries; he died in 1957. There were no i children from either mar-. • riage.