Month: August 2014
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Tuberculosis in Edwardian Britain
Since the inception of this website earlier in the year, the “Press Kit” section has been “under construction”, but no longer: today I uploaded the first fact sheet: Tuberculosis in the Early Twentieth Century. As the name suggests the section is to provide fact sheets for journalists providing facts about Halliday Sutherland and aspects of his life,…
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Mutiny!
This post continues on from “Tuesday, 4th August 2014” below. One hundred years ago this month, Dr Halliday Sutherland was serving in the Royal Navy on the RMS Empress of Britain, somewhere in the Atlantic… Number One joined us after we had been three days at sea. He left a cruiser and crossed to us…
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Britain’s 1st health education film
According to his obituary, Halliday Sutherland produced Britain’s first health education cinema film in Edinburgh in 1911. The film was called: The Story of John M’Neil. The British Film Institute catalogue describes the film as a: Dramatized story of a Scottish family living in slum housing, illustrating how tuberculosis can be spread from one member of the…
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Tuesday 4th August 1914
On Tuesday 4th August 1914, Dr Sutherland received his telegram to join the War. At eight o’clock on Tuesday morning, 4th August, my telegram arrived: “Report at Admiralty ten a.m. Wednesday for medical examination. I travelled by the morning train and that night was in my club in St. James’s Street. London was seething with…