James Newman (geriatrician)
James Lister Newman, QSO (23 April 1903 – 17 October 1983) was a New Zealand geriatrician and advocate for the elderly, medical superintendent at Cornwall and Greenlane Hospitals in Auckland, and writer of the New Zealand Herald's Family Doctor column.[1] He wrote an unpublished history of Cornwall Hospital, a copy of which is held in the Alexander Turnbull Library. [2] In the 1975 Birthday Honours, he was made a companion of the Queen's Service Order for Public Services (QSO) for "services to the care of geriatrics".[3]
References
- ^ Barker, Ronald. "James Lister Newman". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
- ^ Newman, James. 1982. History of the Cornwall Hospital: the development of geriatrics in New Zealand; a history of the hospital over a 30 year period.
- ^ "No. 46595". The London Gazette (Supplement). 6 June 1975. p. 7406.
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