Former medical officer Slough and district community physician South Buckinghamshire (b 1914; q St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, 1939; DPH, MFCM), d 18 January 2003.
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Mac enlisted in the Royal Air Force, rising to the rank of squadron leader. In 1942 he was sent to the Middle East, where one tour of duty was to run a hospital housed in a cave formed by the building of the Pyramids. Back in the United Kingdom he became assistant deputy medical officer for Weston-super-Mare, and in 1950 moved to Slough as the medical officer of health, later holding a similar position in South Bucks until his retirement in 1976. Mac was elected president of the Society of Medical Officers of Health in 1972. He leaves a wife, Gill; two sons; and five grandchildren.
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