Former principal medical officer (adult health) Basingstoke and North Hants (b 1924; q Durham 1950; DObst RCOG), died from cardiac failure on 14 October 2004 a few hours before her brother, Dr Alexander Bryce Stewart (obituary above).
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After working in obstetrics in Newcastle upon Tyne, Farnborough, and Newport, Isle of Wight, she changed direction to geriatrics when appointed assistant physician at Edgware General Hospital. She worked for Newham within community medicine and was later appointed principal medical officer for Basingstoke and North Hants. She published My Brother's Keeper in 1968, which anticipated and highlighted future problems for geriatric medicine and home care support. She retired in 1989.
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