Former medical offer of health Glasgow and community medicine specialist Greater Glasgow Health Board (b Glasgow 1921; q Glasgow 1944; MD, FRCP Glas, FFPHM), died from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on 1 May 2005.
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Scott Wilson was Glasgow's last medical officer of health. After house officer posts he spent three years in the Royal Army Medical Corps, where he attained the rank of major and served on troopships bringing service personnel back from Africa and the Far East. He then worked at Knightswood Hospital, Glasgow, before joining Glasgow Corporation's public health department, later becoming medical officer of health. After reorganisation of the NHS in 1974, Scott moved to the Greater Glasgow Health Board, retiring in 1986. He leaves a wife, Chrissie, and three children.
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