T. I. Candy, M.B., D.M.R.E.

Abstract

News of the death of Dr. Candy, at Newport, Monmouthshire, on June 1 after a very brief illness, was received with profound regret and sorrow by the medical profession in South Wales and Monmouthshire, and the community in which he lived and worked, but also amongst a wider circle of radiologists all over the country. Thomas Ignatius Candy was born in Londonderry in 1892, and received his early education at St. Columb's College in that city. He then entered Queen's College, Belfast, and graduated M.B., B.Ch, B.A.O., of Queen's University in 1918. After some time spent in general practice and subsequently in post-graduate study, he obtained the diploma in radiology of Cambridge University, in 1920. He was formerly Medical Superintendent of the War Pensions Hospital, Birmingham, clinical assistant to the X-ray department of King's College Hospital and deputy-physician-in-charge of the X-ray department at Charing Cross Hospital. He was appointed honorary radiologist to the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, in 1922. He created and organised this special department and rapidly made a name for himself as a skilled investigator and research worker; he applied himself particularly to establishing the value of skiagrams taken at various stages of pregnancy with the object of discovering malpositions of the foetus in utero. He published some monographs and several papers of great merit in the medical press, and translated Lenk's Index and Handbook of X-Ray Therapy (Oxford Medical Publications).