Herbert Davis Chalke OBE (Mil), TD, FRCP, MRCS, MA (Cantab) (15 June 1897 – 8 October 1979) was a British physician known for his work in the fields of social medicine and medical history. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the medical journal Alcohol and Alcoholism.[1][2]

Biography

Chalke was educated at Porth County School, the University of Wales, Cambridge University, and St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He later served in the Royal Flying Corps during part of World War I and all of World War II, retiring as a colonel. In the 1930s, the King Edward VII Welsh National Memorial Association appointed him to study tuberculosis mortality in Wales.[3] He played a major role in a campaign to control a typhus epidemic in Naples, Italy during the 1940s, for which he received the Typhus Commission Medal from the United States government.[4]

He is survived by his son David John Chalke, now a leading social analyst in Australia.

References

  1. ↑ "A Hard Winter". Alcohol and Alcoholism. 1979. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.alcalc.a044185.
  2. ↑ "C V Gledhill". British Medical Journal. 2 (6202): 1444. 1 December 1979. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.6202.1444. PMC 1597124. PMID 391350.
  3. ↑ "Second Paper, by F. J. ALBAN, C.B.E., F.C.I.S., Secretary and Comptroller, King Edward VII Welsh National Memorial Association". The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health. 60 (3): 94–101. 1 January 1939. doi:10.1177/146642403906000303. S2CID 221046275.
  4. ↑ Harrison, Mark (2004). Medicine and Victory: British Military Medicine in the Second World War. OUP Oxford. p. 137. ISBN 9780199268597.
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