John Graham Jones

doi:10.1136/bmj.333.7571.758-d

BMJ 2006;333:758 (7 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.333.7571.758-d

Obituary

John Graham Jones

Former occupational health physician in the steel industry southWales (b 1917; q St Mary's Hospital, London, 1941; FFOM, MFCM),died after a fall on 22 October 2005.

Graham Jones worked as a doctor in the steel industry in southWales from 1946 to 1977, becoming assistant chief medical officerto the British Steel Corporation. He was interested in the effectsof carbon monoxide and won awards for work on industrial dermatitis.In 1977 he received the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal for hislong term interest in the employment of disabled people. Hehelped set up the British Occupational Health Society in 1954,serving as honorary treasurer from 1963 to 1974 and presidentin 1974, and was honorary lecturer in occupational health atthe Welsh National School of Medicine. He leaves a wife, Vivienne;three children; and six grandchildren.

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