Helen Mair

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Helen Elizabeth Mair

Born(1924-04-18)18 April 1924
Rotherham, England
Died14 March 2016(2016-03-14) (aged 91)
Benderloch, Scotland
Nationality English
Education University of Manchester
Relatives Derek Senior (spouse)
Medical career
Field community health
Institutions Medway Health Authority

Dr Helen Elizabeth Mair OBE FFCM FRCPsych FRCP (18 April 1924 - 14 March 2016) was an English physician and medical author. She was Director of Public Health at Medway Health Authority. [1]

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Biography

Mair was born in Rotherham, England on 18 April 1924 to James Alexander Mair, a director of education, and his wife Helen Sumner Mair, a headmistress and educational adviser to the Girl Guides. She attended Dr Williams' School in Dolgellau, Wales and studied medicine at the University of Manchester qualifying in 1948. [1]

After graduation she worked in positions at Ancoats Hospital, Manchester and the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. She was an assistant health officer for Manchester City Council from 1950-1956, and later Deputy Medical Officer of Health for Dagenham. From 1961 to 1963 she was Deputy Medical Officer of Health for Gillingham, going on to become Medical Officer. [1]

From 1974 to 1982 she was a district community physician for the Medway Health District in Kent, going on to become District Medical Officer. [1]

She wrote and contributed to several reports on children's day nurseries, children with Down syndrome, and mental health services including The mental health service after unification: mental health in a unified National Health Service – report of the Tripartite Committee (London, Tripartite Committee, 1972), ) and Handbook of psychiatric rehabilitation practice (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1981). [1] [2]

In 1959 she married Derek Senior, a freelance writer and journalist, who was a member of the Royal Commission on Local Government in England. [3] Together they had a daughter, Jill. [1]

She died at her home in Benderloch, Scotland, on 14 March 2016, after a short illness. [4]

Awards

In 1982 Mair received an OBE in the New Year Honours. [5] She was a Fellow of the Faculty of Community Health, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Royal College of Physicians.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Munks Roll Details for Helen Elizabeth Mair". munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  2. Wing, John K; Morris, Brenda (1981). Handbook of psychiatric rehabilitation practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780192612762. OCLC   473837222.
  3. "Senior, Derek, (4 May 1912–6 Dec. 1988), free-lance writer", Who Was Who, Oxford University Press, 1 December 2007, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u168974, ISBN   978-0-19-954089-1 , retrieved 27 July 2019
  4. "MAIR - Deaths Announcements - Telegraph Announcements". announcements.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  5. "Supplement to The London Gazette". The London Gazette. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 30 December 1981. p. 11. ISSN   0261-8575.