Wilfrid Hocking Parry
Former consultant in community medicine (b 1924; q Liverpool 1948; MD, FFCM, DPH, DTM&H), d 23 January 2002.
As principal medical officer to the city and port of Liverpool (1955-61), he had special responsibility for the control of
infectious diseases. After gaining wider experience as a divisional medical officer in Cheshire and deputy medical officer
of health and PSMO at Sheffield (1965-8), he was appointed medical officer of health to the city of Nottingham in 1969. In
1975 he returned to Sheffield as area medical officer, a post that was disestablished in 1982. Continuing to work in Sheffield
but as a consultant in genitourinary medicine, he retired in 1989. He was a lecturer in public health at Liverpool and Sheffield
universities. He was author of Infectious Diseases: An Epidemiological Approach; first published in 1969, it ran to three editions. Dr Parry was an extremely able and energetic administrator, who always
encouraged and supported his staff. Predeceased by his wife, Theresa, he leaves a daughter, Anne. [Marion Jepson, Clifford Shaw]