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military physician

George Augustus Auden was an English physician, professor of public health, school medical officer, and writer on archaeological subjects.

Background

Auden was born at Horninglow, Burton-upon-Trent where his father John was the first vicar of the Church of Street John the Divine.

Education

He was educated at Repton and at Christ"s College, Cambridge, taking a first-class degree in natural sciences in 1893. He studied medicine at Street Bartholomew"s Hospital, London, and qualified in medicine in 1896.

Career

He then held several medical appointments in London before moving to York, where he was physician at York County Hospital for fourteen years. Here he gained an international reputation as an innovative researcher and educator. During the First World War he served as a medical officer in the British Army in Egypt, Gallipoli, and France.

He retired as School Medical Officer in 1937, but continued at the University and became Professor of Public Health in 1941.

They had three sons: Bernard, who became a farmer. The geologist John Bicknell Auden.

And the poet West. H. Auden. His archaeological interests are reflected in Historical and Scientific Survey of York and District (1906), which he edited, and to which he contributed the chapter on prehistoric archaeology.

Among his publications were:

Historical and Scientific Survey of York and District (1906)

"Heights and weights of Birmingham school children in relation to infant mortality".

School Hygiene, 1910:290–91. "The Birmingham Open-Air School". The Medical Officer, 1912;7:253–55.

"An experiment in the nutritive value of an extra milk ration".

Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute, 1923;44:236–47. "An unusual form of suicide" (on auto-erotic strangulation), Journal of Mental Science, 1927;73:428–31.