Frank Charles Shrubsall
| Frank Charles Shrubsall MA, MD | |||||||||
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| Born | 1874 | ||||||||
| Died | 1935 | ||||||||
| Residence |
17 Lime Grove, Uxbridge Road 34 Lime Grove, Uxbridge Road [1900] AND Hospital for Consumption, Brompton, SW in 1903 list just 34 Lime Grove, Uxbridge Road [1913] 4 Heathfield Road, Mill Hill Park, Acton, W. [1915] 15 Well Walk, Hampstead, NW3 [1919] | ||||||||
| Occupation | medical | ||||||||
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Contents
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Office Notes
AI Council 1900 Member
AI Council 1901 Member
AI Council 1902 Member
AI Council 1905 Member
AI Council 1906 Member
RAI Council 1907 Member
RAI Council 1917 Member
RAI Council 1918 Member
RAI Council 1919 Member
RAI Council 1921 Member
RAI Council 1922 Hon. Treasurer
RAI Council 1923 Hon. Treasurer
RAI Council 1924 Hon. Treasurer
RAI Council 1925 Hon. Treasurer
RAI Council 1926 Hon. Treasurer
RAI Council 1927 Hon. Treasurer and Member
RAI Council 1928 Member
RAI Council 1929 Member
RAI Council 1930-31 Member
House Notes
1898.10.26 proposed
1920.10.26 The appointment of Dr F.C. Shrubsall on the consultative Committee of the Eugenics Society
1935.10.22 death noted
Notes From Elsewhere
b.9 March 1874 d.25 September 1935
MA MD Cantab MRCS DPH RCPI FRCP(1912)
Frank Shrubsall went to Merchant Taylors’ School as a boy and Clare College, Cambridge, as an undergraduate. He gained a double first in natural sciences at the University and the Shuter and Brackenbury scholarships at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he did his clinical training. Having qualified in 1900, he obtained resident appointments at St. Bartholomew’s and the Brompton Hospital. His next few years were spent in anthropological investigations — a paper read to the B.M.A. in 1904 established his reputation in this field — and in lecturing on physiology and anatomy to teachers of physical training at Chelsea Polytechnic. In 1908 he was appointed to a Hunterian professorship at the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1909 his career took firm shape when he joined James Kerr in the work of building up the medical services of L.C.C. schools — a task which utilised his special knowledge of the physical measurements of school-children. In 1910 he investigated the aetiology of rheumatism with Dr. Jane Gilmour, whom he later married. He was then, in 1912, given charge of L.C.C. schools for the mentally and physically defective, a responsibility greatly augmented when, in 1914, the L.C.C. became the local authority for mental deficiency. His duties were again enlarged when, in 1920, the care of the blind came under his direction and when, on the retirement of Kerr and Collie, the health of teachers and of L.C.C. employees generally — whose number was greatly increased by the Local Government Act of 1930 — was entrusted to his supervision.
Shrubsall, who came to be recognised as an authority on the "problem child", lectured at the Maudsley Hospital, where he was outpatient physician, and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and organised the practical side of courses in mental deficiency established by public bodies in London. With A. C. Williams, he published a standard work, Mental Deficiency Practice, in 1932. His achievements were all the more remarkable in that he was a lifelong victim of asthma. His frequent travels to all corners of the world, indeed, were made partly for his health’s sake. As a medical officer, he was noted for the understanding and sympathy with which he tackled the problems of the defective. He died in Hampstead, survived by his wife and daughter.
Publications
External Publications
School hygiene. A monthly review for educationists and doctors. The examination of mentally defective children...
by Frank Charles Shrubsall