Peter Laird McKinlay
Dr Peter Laird McKinlay
FRSE FSS (1901 – 8 December 1972) was a Scottish medical statistician. His report on the effects of milk on schoolchildren brought about the introduction of Free School Milk in British Schools from the Education Act 1944
.
Life
He was born at Radnor Park in
Glasgow University
graduating MB ChB in 1923. He received a Diploma in Public Health in 1925 and his doctorate (MD) in 1927. He then began work as a medical statistician for the Department of Health.
In 1936 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Anderson Gray McKendrick, William Ogilvy Kermack, Edward B. Ross and William Frederick Harvey.[1] From 1930 to 1960 he was Superintendent of Statistics at General Register House, succeeding James Craufurd Dunlop.[2]
In the
Second World War he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps
.
He died at Strachur in western Scotland on 8 December 1972.
Publications
See[3] In 1929 he contributed to the World Health Organization’s report on Infant Mortality[4]
- Milk Consumption and the Growth of School Children (1930)
- Maternal Morbidity and Mortality in Scotland (1935)
References
- ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
- ^ "University of Glasgow - Schools - School of Social & Political Sciences - Research - Research in Economic & Social History - Centre for the History of Medicine - Scottish Way of Birth and Death - Leading Actors - Superintendents of Statistics".
- ^ "McKinlay, Peter Laird | the Online Books Page".
- ^ "Infant mortality: International inquiry of the Health Organisation of the League of Nations, English section: Report, by Dame Janet Campbell, with statistical notes by Peter L. McKinlay (Instance) - University of Liverpool".
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