Dr. S. H. Daukes, O.B.E

Abstract

By the death of Sidney Herbert Daukes, the medical profession has lost its leading authority on the modern medical museum. Daukes died on September 3 after a short illness. The son of the Rev. S. Whitfield Daukes, vicar of Holy Trinity, Beckenham, he was born on April 20, 1879. He was educated at Lancing College where he distinguished himself in various sports, and at Caius College, Cambridge. He took a second class in the Natural Science Tripos in 1900 and then studied medicine at the London Hospital. He qualified M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. in 1905 and in the same year graduated M.B., B.Ch., Cambridge. After several years spent in hospital appointments and in general practice, he took his D.P.H. in 1912 and in 1913 the D.T.M. & H. By the outbreak of the First World War he had held a post as assistant school medical officer at Leeds and was chief assistant school medical officer for Norfolk.