Jean Mary Scott (née Lewis)
BMJ 2005; 330 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.330.7502.1274-e (Published 26 May 2005) Cite this as: BMJ 2005;330:1274
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Jean Mary Scott (née Lewis)
Former assistant paediatrician St Peter’s Hospital, Chertsey (b Wolverhampton 1917; q Birmingham 1940; DCH London 1967), d 6 May 2005.Jean was a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1943 and saw service in India and Malaysia as a medical specialist. She was demobilised in 1947.
She started the blood transfusion service in Penang and then worked for the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association before returning to England in 1962. After attaining the diploma in child health she worked as assistant paediatrician at St Peter’s, Chertsey, and the White Lodge Centre. After retiring from the NHS she worked at the Charles Johnston Hospital, Nqutu, Zululand.
She married Angus Scott in 1948 and was widowed in 1979. She remarried, to John Wilson, in 1980, and was widowed again in 1990.
She leaves three sons, the eldest of whom is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon, and one stepson; six grandchildren, of whom one qualified as a doctor in 2003; and three great grandchildren. [William Scott]