LOSS TO MEDICINE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23881, 4 February 1941, Page 7

LOSS TO MEDICINE

SIR P. VARRIER-JONES DEAD

TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS

British Wireless LONDON, Feb. 2 The death has occurred of Sir Pendrill Varrier-Jones, co-founder, and for 22 years director of Papworth Village, and prominent for his treatment of tuberculosis. Sir Pendrill was aged 57. In completing his great work, he had seen the extension of the Papworth factories, providing for numerous civilians as well as for hundreds of ex-ser-

SIR PENDRILL VARRIER-JONES vicemen, for wUom the settlement was founded. Living in tlieir own boraes under medical supervision, these men turned out work for which there was always a demand. Families were also cared for and Papworth could boast that no child in the village was tubercular. Medical men from all over the world came to observe the experiment in social medicine, the development of which was so markedly successful. Similar settlements, as a result, have been established in the United States and elsewhere.

Sir Pendrill Varrier-Jones had a distinguished scholastic career at Cambridge University, graduating B.A. in 1905 and M.A. in 1909, and subsequently was engaged in research at Cambridge University Medical Schools. He was appointed medical director or the Papworth Village Settlement in 1918, and was honorary medical director of the British Legion Village during reorganisation from 1925 to 1927, and occupied a similar position at the Peamount Village Settlement, Dublin, from 1030 to 193.5. He Mitchell lecturer at the Loyal Cohcf> of Plivsicians, London, in L, . . ber of the Royal College of PhjM«aa» in 1929. and a fellow in 1934. **° ... extensively on tuberculosis and ullage settlement schemes.