ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the new recruits to the Seamen’s Hospital Society (SHS) administrative staff which, with the implementation of the NHS Act in 1948 proved to be one of a steady decline in the manifold activities of the SHS. It describes the careers of many of the senior medical personnel who began their association with the Society during the period under review. Edward Thomas Campbell Milligan FRCS was born at Waterloo, near Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, and educated at Ballarat College and Melbourne University – from which he qualified in 1910. Following junior appointments in Melbourne, Milligan moved to Europe in 1914 with a Field Ambulance of the Australian Expeditionary Force; he published articles on the surgical management of war wounds, ‘shell shock’, and blood transfusion. James Littlejohn MBE studied medicine at King’s College London and St George’s Hospital. After junior appointments, he became Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon to several hospitals, including the Tilbury Hospital.
