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Name: DONNISON, Cyril Percy (Dr)
Birth Date: 1899 Uddingston, Scotland
Death Date: 23 Jan 1954 Charlton Kings, Glos.
First Date: 1926
Profession: Medical officer
Married: In London 1924 Doris Clara Hicks b. 27 Oct 1895 Chingford, d. 1986 Slough
Children: Aileen Barbara (22 Sep 1926 Kenya-2013); another dau.
Book Reference: Gazette
General Information:
Gazette - 3/2/1926 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Medical Officer - Dr. C.P. Donnison
Argued that civilisation was the cause of disease; wrote book' Civilisation and Disease' 1937
Career: Pilot Royal Flying Corps (1917-19); MO Kenya (1925-28); private practice, Benfleet and Cheltenham (c. 1930); Consulting Physician Children’s Department Cheltenham General Hospital (1948-1953);