Former district community physician Canterbury and Thanet (b Leith 1912; q Edinburgh 1935; DPH, FFCM, OBE), died from pneumonia on 15 April 2003.
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Malcolm Harvey joined the Royal Army Medical Corps at the outbreak of the second world war and took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk. Seconded soon afterwards to the Department of Health, he helped set up a wartime regional health structure in the south east of England. At the end of the war he helped re-establish health services in Holland following the “winter of the hunger.” In 1948 he was appointed medical officer of health for Canterbury and the surrounding districts and continued to be responsible for public health in the area until his retirement in 1978. He notably tracked down the source of an explosive outbreak of Q fever at the city's college of art in 1950. He leaves a wife, Hope; four children; and nine grandchildren.
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