Millburn Kirkyard: Kinloch Memorial

Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 22 Oct 2012

The stone is near the south-west corner of Image Those named in the inscription include John Parlane Kinloch, M.D., D.P.H., M.R.C.P., Chief Medical Officer of Health for Scotland, who died on the 31st of January 1932, aged 46. He was from the West of Scotland, graduated from Glasgow University, and thereafter took the Diploma in Public Health (D.P.H.) at Cambridge, and qualified as M.D. at Glasgow (the other abbreviation in the inscription, "M.R.C.P.", stands for "Member of the Royal College of Physicians"). He served in Glasgow's Victoria Infirmary; at the Queen Charlotte Lying-in Hospital, in London; and as a pupil-assistant in the Glasgow Public Health Department. He was later a resident medical officer at Ruchill Fever Hospital (Image) until 1914, at which time he was appointed Deputy Medical Officer of Health at Aberdeen, and Lecturer in Public Health at the city's university. Holding the rank of Captain in the RAMC (T) – Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial) – he commanded a mobile hygienic field laboratory in France in 1918. [The information in this paragraph is from the Glasgow Herald issue of 7th November 1928, which see for more details]. Dr John Parlane Kinloch was appointed Chief Medical Officer for the Department of Health for Scotland in 1928 (that is the main subject of the Glasgow Herald article just cited). Following his death in 1932, he was succeeded in that office by Dr James Law Brownlie.

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